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Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett (August 19, 1907 – April 21, 1981), the daughter of statesman Charles Evans Hughes, was the first American, and one of the first people in the world, treated with insulin for type 1 diabetes. She received over 42,000 insulin shots over her lifetime.
30 de nov. de 2023 · Elisabeth Gosset Hughes no fue la primera paciente en recibir el tratamiento, pero la fama de su padre hizo que el éxito de la insulina abriera los periódicos de toda América y Europa. Para muchos expertos su caso hizo que el uso clínico de la insulina acabara con las inmensas salas de niños en coma unos diez años antes de lo previsible.
16 de ago. de 2011 · Breakthrough : Elizabeth Hughes, the discovery of insulin, and the making of a medical miracle. by. Cooper, Thea; Ainsberg, Arthur. Publication date. 2010. Topics. Gossett, Elizabeth Hughes, 1908-1981, Insulin, Diabetes. Publisher. New York : St. Martin's Press.
14 de sept. de 2010 · Elizabeth Hughes was the eleven year-old daughter of a prominent and popular American politician when she was diagnosed as a diabetic. There was no cure and few survived more than a year. The only treatment was a carefully monitored starvation developed by Dr. Frederick Allen.
25 de oct. de 2011 · In a race against time and a ravaging disease, Elizabeth becomes one of the first diabetics to receive insulin injections – all while its discoverers and a little known pharmaceutical company struggle to make it available to the rest of the world.
30 de nov. de 2010 · The insulin discovery research story is remarkable all the way from its humble beginnings (Banting and Best, sweaty and surrounded by dog feces, struggling to isolate insulin from canine pancreases in a dingy laboratory) to its controversial conclusions.
Elizabeth Hughes Gossett was born on August 19, 1907 in the Executive Mansion in Albany, New York while her father, Charles Evans Hughes, was serving as the state's Governor. In 1919, at age 11, Elizabeth developed juvenile diabetes, and, by the age of 14, her health had deteriorated significantly.
