| Description | Slide shows a chart of 'Hyper insulinism'
Handwritten label above image gives title.
The 'y' axis is labelled 'Blood sugar: mg per 100 c.c.'
The 'x' axis is labelled 'Time in hours'.
Title below image reads 'Fig. 25 - Hyper insulinism. The continuous line represents blood sugar values after administration of 50 grams of glucose. Prior to the test the patient had been fed a high carbohydrate diet for week, while food was withheld for twelve hours immediately prior to the sugar meal. At subsequent operation a small adenoma of an islet of Langerhans was removed. The dotted line represents a similar sugar tolerance taken six months later. (After Fraser, Maclay and Mann, Quart. J. Med., 1938, vii, 115)'. |