Early history of oral hypoglycaemic agents
DD Vol 7 Issue 1 2008
Today’s diabetes world is fast moving and exciting; knowledge is accumulating at an astonishing rate. To help understand the present, however, it sometimes helps to examine the past. In this installment of Tattersall’s Tales, Robert Tattersall describes the history of oral hypoglycaemic agents, beginning with nostrums like ‘Dill’s Diabetic Mixture’ in the early 1900s, to the development of the synthalins with fatal side-effects.
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