Sunday, January 23, 2022

Monday, January 23, 1922. A medical triumph from occurs in Toronto.

Leonard Thompson, age 14, received the first successful injection of insulin in history. He'd only shortly before received an unsuccessful one, in the first example of an insulin injection, which he had an allergic reaction to.

The very first insulin injection to treat diabetes

Leonard Thompson | January 11 & 23, 1922

It's all too easy to forget that it was only 100 years ago that a disease like diabetes, now very treatable, simply terminated the lives of those seriously afflicted with it.

It's also too easy to get that this lifesaver comes at the end of a needle, something that similar treatments also do, and yet they continue to be resisted today.

President Harding opened a farming convention, promising Federal help to farmers for loans for such things as equipment purchases.

Not surprisingly, just as now, human reminders of the recent war abounded at such things.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was sending out a reminder that waterfowl season was drawing down.

And this is also true now.

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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