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Requiring
patients to administer their own injections was unprece-dented,
time consuming, and often painful; the early glass syringes
used large needles that had to be sterilized in boiling water
and sharpened on a whetstone.
 Courtesy of Eli Lilly & Company |
These ads for
insulin, pro-duced fir Eli Lilly, reinforced the drug as an
elixer for a once-fatal disease without acknowledging its limitat-ions.
For decades the notion of diabetes as a scientific success
story fueled misperceptions about the disorder.  |