14 MARCH 1931, Page 17

INSULIN

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, In your number for March 7th you very truly remark, that " even now " many patients are not getting the advantages of a treatment (i.e., insulin treatment) " which unquestionably prolongs life." One reason for this probably is because the anti-vivisectionists have set themselves furiously to deny the advantages of insulin, which, as everyone knows, is a product of what is called vivisection. The Anti-Vivisection Journal for December last stated : " We read that Dr. Banting, who has received so much credit for his discovery of that lamentable failure, insulin, has received an honour." Thus by putting forward perverted statistics and making urgent appeals to ignorant sentimentality these people do not scruple to press forward their cruel work, and to hinder sufferers receiving the only treatment which can afford them relief.—