Interesting Facts- About Banting, Diabetes and Insulin
Until the 20th Century, tasting urine was the primary test for diabetes diagnosis. Many doctors tried to get their patients to perform the test.
Before the discovery of insulin in 1922, type 1 diabetes, then known as juvenile diabetes, had a 100% death rate.
Before insulin, the only treatment for type 1 diabetes was starvation - extending life only a few years.
Frederick Banting was unimpressive in high school and was an extremely poor speller; he first spelled diabetes as "diabetus."
When Frederick Banting was researching diabetes he had to sell his car in order to buy more dogs to continue.
The first people to ever receive insulin were Frederick Banting and Charles Best - they injected insulin into each other's arms to see if it was safe on humans.
Banting was offered $1 million and royalties by an American financier - but turned it down and never profited from insulin.
Only about five grams of insulin is circulating in a human's blood at any given time - about the amount contained in a sugar packet.
Insulin in all animals is nearly identical and can be used across species
Before the discovery of insulin in 1922, type 1 diabetes, then known as juvenile diabetes, had a 100% death rate.
Before insulin, the only treatment for type 1 diabetes was starvation - extending life only a few years.
Frederick Banting was unimpressive in high school and was an extremely poor speller; he first spelled diabetes as "diabetus."
When Frederick Banting was researching diabetes he had to sell his car in order to buy more dogs to continue.
The first people to ever receive insulin were Frederick Banting and Charles Best - they injected insulin into each other's arms to see if it was safe on humans.
Banting was offered $1 million and royalties by an American financier - but turned it down and never profited from insulin.
Only about five grams of insulin is circulating in a human's blood at any given time - about the amount contained in a sugar packet.
Insulin in all animals is nearly identical and can be used across species