Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle

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 …

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