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Oral Hypoglycaemic Activity of an Anhydroformaldehyde Aniline-Insulin Mixture

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TWENTY-FIVE to thirty per cent of diabetic patients require insulin to remain alive and well. In the main these patients have the juvenile-onset type of diabetes mellitus and treatment for many years is normal. So far, the insulin they require can only be administered parenterally, despite many attempts in the past 40 years to circumvent the injections needed and the physical risks and psychological trauma involved1.

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WALES, J., BRADLEY, P. & WOLFF, F. Oral Hypoglycaemic Activity of an Anhydroformaldehyde Aniline-Insulin Mixture. Nature 211, 88–89 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211088a0

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