Elizabeth Hughes Gossett

First American treated with insulin for diabetes (1907-1981) · United States · Activists · Died at 73

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Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett, the daughter of 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.

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Elizabeth Evans Hughes, from the 1929 yearbook of Barnard College

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Mary Louise Smith42.7 Layli Miller-Muro42.6 Lorraine Gordon42.8

Margaret Downey42.6 Carrie Rozelle42.8

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