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    Breakthrough : Elizabeth Hughes, the discovery of insulin, and the making of a medical miracle / Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg.

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    • Title:Breakthrough : Elizabeth Hughes, the discovery of insulin, and the making of a medical miracle / Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg.
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    • Author/Creator:Cooper, Thea.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Ainsberg, Arthur.
    • Published/Created:New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Gossett, Elizabeth Hughes, 1908-1981--Health.
      Insulin--History.
      Diabetes--Treatment--History.
    • Medical Subjects: Insulin--history.
    • Genre/Form:Biographies.
    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Description:viii, 306 pages, [8] pages of plates : ill ; 25 cm.
    • Summary:Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others, "Breakthrough" relives the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780312648701
      0312648707
    • Contents:1. Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1981
      2. Fifth Avenue, New York City, April 1919
      3. Breakfast Room of the Home of Charles Evans Hughes, New york City, April 1919
      4. Library of the Home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919
      5. New York City, April 1919, Later That Afternoon
      6. Toronto, Canada, and Cambrai, France, 1917-1918
      7. War, Peace, and Politics, 1914-1918
      8. Glens Falls, New York, April 1920
      9. Idea of the Physiatric Institute, May 1920
      10. Banting's House in London, Ontario, October 30-31, 1920
      11. Toronto or Bust, October 1920 to April 1921
      12. Presidential Politics, 1916 and 1920
      13. Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, 1921
      14. University of Toronto, Summer 1921
      15. Washington, D.C., and Bolton, New York, March to September 1921
      16. Washington Conference, November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922
      17. Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, November 1921
      18. University of Toronto, September to December 1921
      19. Crossroads of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1919-1921
      20. American Physiological Society Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, December 28-30, 1921
      21. Success and Failure, The University of Toronto, January 1922
      22. Failure and Success, The University of Toronto, February to April 1922
      23. Honeymoon Cottage, Hamilton, Bermuda, January to July 1922
      24. Patents, Partnership, and Pancreases, Indianapolis and Toronto, April to August 1922
      25. Fame and Famine, Summer 1922
      26. Four Trunks, Washington, D.C., August 1922
      27. Escape from Morristown, August 1922
      28. Transformation Begins, Toronto, August to November 1922
      29. Crossing the Line Aboard the SS Pan America, August to September 1922
      30. Fate, Fortune, and Forgetting, September to December 1922
      31. Nobel Prize and Beyond
      32. Emergence of Elizabeth Gossett.
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