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RIP Stanley Clark

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In a way he still lives as he has given so many people a better quality of life.
 
RIP Stanley and thank you for making life so much easier!
 
You the man STAN..................thanks and rest in peace.............🙂
 
HelenM said:
Heres a picture of a Stan Clark RAHC Glucose Tester.
http://www.d1.org.au/history/the-old-equipment.html

He doesn't figure in any accounts of the development of glucose monitoring I could find. They're all from a US perspective.
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Mendosa has a great account of the early meters. They talk about a father of a diabetic child who saw the Eyetone meter and the Dextrostix and developed his own meter around those - that might be Clark.

Fantastically enough Bernstein was the first patient to buy a meter for himself in the early 70s.
Also a meter called the Glucochek was available in England to patients in 1975-76.

http://www.mendosa.com/history.htm
 
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Ashamed to say I had never heard of Stanley Clark although his invention of the portable bg meter was the one thing that revolutionised my life, previously having been use to the Clinitest Urine kit the bg meter couldn't come a day too soon. The first one I purchased was the Reflolux S meter which cost me just over ?100, this was a small fortune back in the early 80's but money worth spent, thanks Stanley we owe you so much. RIP.
 
Toby I feel ashamed of not hearing of him before too - esp as he was British.

I couldn't possibly afford ?100+ so couldn't have a meter at first but when they dropped to ?30-ish I asked for money off everyone for my birthday and put the rest myself. Incidentally folks, ?30-ish was the same as our month;y mortgage payment, and I used to pick up well over ?40 a month at that time, about ?38 I think ......

I used to have ?6 a week housekeeping and out of that I also bought my train fares for the week or my fags, but not both .....

Hubby's basic was ?13.50 a week.
 
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