Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Thanks to an epiphany Dr. Frederick Banting had on Oct. 31 1920, diabetes no longer scares Sam Cheon.
Banting had been reading about the pancreas ? something he knew very little about and he had been reviewing literature that proved diabetes could be artificially caused in dogs by removing the pancreas. That night he was almost asleep when he jolted up in bed and jotted down notes about a possible connection between the hormone produced by the pancreas and the body?s ability to process sugar.
In collaboration with Dr. Charles Best and two other researchers at the University of Toronto and after nine months of experimentation, insulin was discovered. The first successful test on a human patient with diabetes was on Jan. 12, 1922.
Read more: http://www.leaderpost.com/health/Hoping+cure/5630694/story.html#ixzz1cLBKMWJG
Banting had been reading about the pancreas ? something he knew very little about and he had been reviewing literature that proved diabetes could be artificially caused in dogs by removing the pancreas. That night he was almost asleep when he jolted up in bed and jotted down notes about a possible connection between the hormone produced by the pancreas and the body?s ability to process sugar.
In collaboration with Dr. Charles Best and two other researchers at the University of Toronto and after nine months of experimentation, insulin was discovered. The first successful test on a human patient with diabetes was on Jan. 12, 1922.
Read more: http://www.leaderpost.com/health/Hoping+cure/5630694/story.html#ixzz1cLBKMWJG
