[Diabetes-talk] On this date in History: January 23rd 1922 Insulin Injection Aids Diabetic Patient

[Colleen Roth]

Hi Cheryl,
Thanks for the post.
I knew Insulin was developed in 1922 but not the date.
Think of what a blessing it is to have insulin and all the other meds we have to help us to live a better quality of life with diabetes.
Colleen Roth



----- Original Message -----
From: Dr. Denise M Robinson <deniserob at gmail.com>
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Monday, Jan 23, 2012 08:32:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] On this date in History: January 23rd 1922 Insulin Injection Aids Diabetic Patient

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>
> Excellent article Cheryl--
> Denise
> 
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:40 AM, cheryl echevarria <
> cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Good morning all:
> > I have started this date in History for my Blog, and being Diabetic, I
> > thought I would post this important date since I am also Diabetic.
> > January 23, 1922:
> > This comes from History.com
> > At Toronto General Hospital, 14-year-old Canadian Leonard Thompson becomes
> > the first person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for diabetes.
> > Diabetes has been recognized as a distinct medical condition for more than
> > 3,000 years, but its exact cause was a mystery until the 20th century. By
> > the early 1920s, many researchers strongly suspected that diabetes was
> > caused by a malfunction in the digestive system related to the pancreas
> > gland, a small organ that sits on top of the liver. At that time, the only
> > way to treat the fatal disease was through a diet low in carbohydrates and
> > sugar and high in fat and protein. Instead of dying shortly after
> > diagnosis, this diet allowed diabetics to live-comfor about a year.
> > A breakthrough came at the University of Toronto in the summer of 1921,
> > when Canadians Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolated
> > insulin from canine test subjects, produced diabetic symptoms in the
> > animals, and then began a program of insulin injections that returned the
> > dogs to normalcy. On November 14, the discovery was announced to the world.
> > Two months later, with the support of J.J.R. MacLeod of the University of
> > Toronto, the two scientists began preparations for an insulin treatment of
> > a human subject. Enlisting the aid of biochemist J.B. Collip, they were
> > able to extract a reasonably pure formula of insulin from the pancreas of
> > cattle from slaughterhouses and used it to treat Leonard Thompson. The
> > diabetic teenager improved dramatically, and the University of Toronto
> > immediately gave pharmaceutical companies license to produce insulin, free
> > of royalties. By 1923, insulin had become widely available, saving
> > countless lives around the world, and Banting and Macleod were awarded the
> > Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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