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Source of acquisition: The letters were donated in 1996 to the Fisher Library by Elizabeth Hughes' husband, William T. Gossett, and their children: W. Thomas Gossett, Jr., Antoinette Carter (Gossett) Denning, and Elizabeth Evans (Gossett) Karaman. The original photographs were donated in 1996 by Theodore Hughes Waddell, a nephew of Elizabeth ...
21 de feb. de 2021 · Elizabeth Hughes Gossett (1907 – 1981), the youngest daughter of U.S. politician Charles Evans Hughes, was the first American, and one of the first people in the world, to be treated with insulin for type 1 diabetes.
It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment – starvation – whittles her down to forty-five pounds skin and bones.
Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett (née le 19 août 1907 et morte le 21 avril 1981) est la première Américaine et l'une des premières personnes au monde à être traitée à l' insuline pour le diabète de type 1 2 . Elle fonde la Supreme Court Historical Society en 1972.
But this young girl, Elizabeth Evans Hughes, the daughter of a politically powerful American family, was given the latest treatment available. No, it was not insulin—its discovery was still 3 years in the future. This innovation was a rigid diet known as “starvation therapy”. It had been recently developed by the physician Frederick M ...
Elizabeth Hughes Gossett died on April 21, 1981. The Hughes-Gossett Awards of the United States Supreme Court Historical Society have been named in her honor, and continue to be awarded yearly to the best student paper on the history of the court.
