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Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. First Edition. Halle (Saale): Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp, 1916. Fine condition. Handsomely bound in red buckram, with a gilt-decorated, dark green leather spine label. Gilt is still as shiny as new. A bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Hardcover. Illustrated. Index. The title page of this copy bears the ink stamp of insulin pioneer Dr. Ing Harald Pedersen who with his brother Thorvald, started Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium in 1925. "In 1923 the engineer Harald Pedersen joined Nordisk to build the machines used for insulin production. His brother, Thorvald Pedersen, was later recruited to analyze the chemical processes during insulin production. However Thorvald Pedersen did not get on with Hagedorn, and in 1924 Hagedorn fired him. Out of loyalty to his brother, Harald resi-gned and the two brothers set up on their own. By 1924 they too were successfully producing insulin The brothers named their company Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium [Novo and Nordisk became] the world's leading manufacturers of insulin. Over the next 65 years both companies rapidly expanded. Both established large research units and competed furiously to be the first on the market with new products for the treatment of diabetes. Nordisk and Novo also both began to diversify by developing other products. Novo became the world's largest producer of industrial enzymes." - Novonordisk. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. 8vo. xii, 833pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.