Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2298

WILLIAM GEORGE MACCALLUM (1874-1944) On the relation of the islands of Langerhans to glycosuria. (In Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Vol. 20 (1909), no. 222, pp. [265]-268.) 30 cm.

A native of Ontario, MacCallum was a member of the first class to graduate from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1897. He subsequently became a member of the faculty and, with the exception of the period from 1909 through 1917 when he was professor of pathology at Columbia University, remained at Johns Hopkins until his death. Among MacCallum's important contributions to the health sciences were his discovery of the sexual forms of the malaria parasite in 1897, demonstration that the parathyroid glands control the metabolism of calcium in 1909, and the present paper in which he suggests a relationship between the islands of Langerhans and carbohydrate metabolism. His fundamental research on the pathology of diabetes helped lead to an understanding of the role the pancreas has in this disease.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3962

Gift of John Martin, M.D.