75 YEARS AGO - INSULIN-TREATMENT IN HEREFORD-GENERAL-HOSPITAL

This year, 1998, marks the 75th anniversary of the general availabilit y of insulin in the United Kingdom. To mark the occasion, Diabetic Med icine publishes this account of the early days of insulin therapy in o ne of Britain's district general hospitals, Hereford General Hospital. The authors describe the first tentative use of insulin and draw some interesting parallels with the issues which still concern the introdu ction of novel therapies in endocrinology today. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.