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Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett (August 19, 1907 – April 21, 1981), the daughter of US statesman Charles Evans Hughes, was the first American, and one of the first people in the world, treated with insulin for type 1 diabetes. She received over 42,000 insulin shots over her lifetime.
Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett (August 19, 1907 – April 21, 1981), the daughter of US statesman Charles Evans Hughes, was the first American, and one of the first people in the world, treated with insulin for type 1 diabetes. She received over 42,000 insulin shots over her lifetime.
Sep 14, 2010 · Focusing on Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, daughter of Charles Evans Hughes, a noted lawyer, jurist, and politician of his day, Breakthrough uses Elizabeth's story to put a human face to all of the victims of the disease, as much as it traces the discovery's path through the lives and work of the scientists involved. A subplot highlights the efforts ...
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Apr 26, 1981 · By Maureen Joyce. April 26, 1981 at 12:00 a.m. EST. Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, 73, the last surviving child of the late Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and the founder of the Supreme Court...
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Elizabeth Gossett died of pneumonia on April 21, 1981 at the age of seventy-three. She had lived for fifty-eight years on insulin. Her life had been full and active and she believed that few of her friends or associates knew of her diabetic condition.
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Jul 30, 2021 · Elizabeth would settle in Washington D.C. to complete high school before moving back to New York, graduating from Barnard College in 1929. A year later, she married William T. Gossett, a lawyer who worked in her father’s law firm.