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Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett (August 19, 1907 – April 21, 1981), the daughter of US statesman Charles Evans Hughes, was the first American, and one of the first people in the world, treated with insulin for type 1 diabetes. She received over 42,000 insulin shots over her lifetime.
Elizabeth Gossett died of pneumonia on April 21, 1981 at the age of seventy-three. She had lived for fifty-eight years on insulin. Her life had been full and active and she believed that few of her friends or associates knew of her diabetic condition.
Elisabeth Gosset Hughes no fue la primera paciente en recibir el tratamiento, pero la fama de su padre hizo que el éxito de la insulina abriera los periódicos de toda América y Europa. Para muchos expertos su caso hizo que el uso clínico de la insulina acabara con las inmensas salas de niños en coma unos diez años antes de lo previsible.
16 de ago. de 2011 · Breakthrough : Elizabeth Hughes, the discovery of insulin, and the making of a medical miracle. by. Cooper, Thea; Ainsberg, Arthur. Publication date. 2010. Topics. Gossett, Elizabeth Hughes, 1908-1981, Insulin, Diabetes. Publisher. New York : St. Martin's Press.
Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett (August 19, 1907 – April 21, 1981), the daughter of US statesman Charles Evans Hughes, was the first American, and one of the first people in the world, treated with insulin for type 1 diabetes. She received over 42,000 insulin shots over her lifetime.
14 de sept. de 2010 · Focusing on Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, daughter of Charles Evans Hughes, a noted lawyer, jurist, and politician of his day, Breakthrough uses Elizabeth's story to put a human face to all of the victims of the disease, as much as it traces the discovery's path through the lives and work of the scientists involved.
Breakthrough’s central character, Elizabeth Hughes, is 12 years old when she receives her diagnosis of diabetes in the spring of 1919. The lively, likable daughter of former Supreme Court Justice and presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes, Elizabeth has access to the best diabetologist in the state of New York.
