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Wesley, the little eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Berberich of Courtland, was miraculously saved from a diabetic death, Friday night. Although life was almost extinct for a while, the lad is now happy and cheerful and eats heartily. The attending physicians announce that the patient is sugar free and his chances for ultimate recovery are very gratifying.

Late Friday night, the boy’s father telephoned a New Ulm physician asking him to hurry to the Berberich home, as the little boy was apparently in death’s grasp. When the doctor arrived, he found the lad pulse-less and his limbs were growing cold. The little fellow was hurried to the Union hospital here, where two injections of insulin, the world-renowned new treatment for diabetes, discovered by Dr. Banting of the Toronto, Canada, university, were made at 3 and 6 o’clock Saturday morning, respectively. An hour after the latter injection, the boy revived from his coma and his condition has improved steadily ever since.

Wesley is the first patient in this section of the country, who was saved from a diabetic death by insulin, although quite a number of severe cases have been treated and relieved here previously. In each of these, all diabetic symptoms have been obliterated and the patients are making satisfactory progress.

Brown County Journal,

Jan. 25, 1924

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