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Russell M. (Russell Morse) Wilder
1885–1959
A pioneering American physician and medical researcher, he helped shape early modern thinking about nutrition, diabetes, and epilepsy. He is especially remembered for introducing the term "ketogenic diet" and for helping develop it as a clinical therapy.
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Diabetes : Its cause and its treatment with insulin
by Russell M. (Russell Morse) Wilder
About the author
Born in Cincinnati in 1885, Russell Morse Wilder built a career at the intersection of medicine, metabolism, and nutrition. He earned degrees from the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College, and he spent much of his professional life at the Mayo Clinic, where his work focused on diabetes and related metabolic disorders.
Wilder is best known for his role in the early development of the ketogenic diet as a treatment for epilepsy. He also helped bring new attention to dietary approaches in medicine at a time when researchers were still learning how nutrition could affect serious illness. In addition, he was among the early American physicians to use insulin for patients with diabetes.
Although he was not primarily a literary figure, Wilder's scientific writing and clinical research had a lasting influence on twentieth-century medicine. He died in 1959, but his name remains closely linked with the history of metabolic research and the origins of keto therapy.