Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Breakthrough

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

526077082645699266

Responsibility statement

Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg

Sub title

Elizabeth Hughes, the discovery of insulin, and the making of a medical miracle

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

Table Of Contents

Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1981 -- Fifth Avenue, New York City, April 1919 -- Breakfast room of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919 -- Library of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919 -- New York City, April 1919, later that afternoon -- Toronto, Canada, and Cambrai, France, 1917-1918 -- War, peace, and politics, 1914-1918 -- Glen Falls, New York, April 1920 -- Idea of the Physiatric Institute, May 1920 -- Banting's house in London, Ontario, October 30-31, 1920 -- Toronto or bust, October 1920 to April 1921 -- Presidential politics, 1916 and 1920 -- Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, 1921 -- Washington, D.C., and Boston, New York, March to September 1921 -- Washington Conference, November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922 -- Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, November 1921 -- University of Toronto, September to December 1921 -- Crossroads of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1919-1921 -- American Physiological SocietyMeeting, New Haven, Connecticut, December 28-30, 1921Success and failure, the University of Toronto, January, 1922 -- Failure and success, the University of Toronto, February to April 1922 -- Honeymoon cottage, Hamilton, Bermuda, January to July 1922 -- Parents, partners, and pancreases, Indianapolis and Toronto, April to August 1922 -- Fame and famine, Summer 1922 -- Four trunks, Washington, D.C., August 1922 -- Escape from Morristown, August 1922 -- Transformation begins, Toronto, August to November 1922 -- Crossing the line aboard the SS Pan America, August to September 1922 -- Fate, fortune, and forgetting, September to December 1922 -- Nobel Prize and beyond -- Emergence of Elizabeth Gossett

Target audience

adult

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