In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis. Others were being treated by being placed on an extremely strict diet, which inevitably led to starvation.
These children were essentially in their death beds, awaiting what was at that time, certain death. The scientists moved swiftly and proceeded to inject the children with a new purified extract of insulin.
As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first one to be injected began to wake up. Then one by one, all the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room that was full of death and gloom, suddenly became a place of joy and hope.
In the early 1920s, Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under John Macleod at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip, insulin was purified, making it available to successfully treat diabetes. Both Banting and Macleod earned Nobel Prizes for their work in 1923.
In the same year, Banting, Collip, and Best decided to sell the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for $1.
Banting famously went on to say, "Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world."
One of Jung’s most brilliant insights is his claim that the true opposite of love is neither hate nor indifference, but power: “When loves rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. One is the shadow of the other.”~Henry Abramovitch
An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.
— Chinese proverb
PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN PENCIL- ESPECIALLY IN KIDS!!!
Excellent warning against the current pervasive/careless/harmful labeling of kids: https://t.co/jLojKUnWpG
We should not try to ‘get rid’ of a neurosis, but rather to experience what it means, what it has to teach, what its purpose is. We should even learn to be thankful for it, otherwise we pass it by and miss the opportunity of getting to know ourselves as we really are.~Jung, CW 10