Seventy-five years ago: insulin treatment in Hereford General Hospital

This year, 1998, marks the 75th anniversary of the general availability of insulin in the United Kingdom. To mark the occasion, Diabetic Medicine publishes this account of the early days of insulin therapy in one of Britain's district general hospitals, Hereford General Hospital. The authors describe the first tentative use of insulin and draw some interesting parallels with the issues which still concern the introduction of novel therapies in endocrinology today.