Thea Cooper: 1 book
Breakthrough
Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
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...
