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It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment - starvation - whittles her down to forty-five pounds skin and bones.

Breakthrough Elizabeth Hughes the Discovery of

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      Publisher: Griffin Publishing
      Publication Date: 25/10/2011
      ISBN13: 9780312611743, 978-0312611743
      ISBN10: 0312611749
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      Book Synopsis
      It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment - starvation - whittles her down to forty-five pounds skin and bones.

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