Post by mikef6 on Apr 17, 2021 18:32:36 GMT
Hey, I’m a tough guy, you know. But I almost teared up when I read about this great amazing – and true - moment in medical history.
Before January 1922, Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. But late in the previous year a team of Canadian doctors led by Frederick Banting worked to extract and purify natural insulin from the pancreas of cows.
After successfully treating one child with their new extract, Banting and his assistant Charles Best visited a hospital in Toronto which housed diabetic children on January 11, 1922.
They entered a huge ward with many beds each holding a comatose child, many with distraught parents at bedside waiting for the (then) inevitable end. They started going from bed to bed injecting their extract. They moved all through the ward. By the time they reached the final patient, the first was beginning to wake up from the diabetic coma. Slowly, to the joy of the parents, one by one the children came back to life.
For this work Bunting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 1923.
Dr. Frederick Banting
Before January 1922, Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. But late in the previous year a team of Canadian doctors led by Frederick Banting worked to extract and purify natural insulin from the pancreas of cows.
After successfully treating one child with their new extract, Banting and his assistant Charles Best visited a hospital in Toronto which housed diabetic children on January 11, 1922.
They entered a huge ward with many beds each holding a comatose child, many with distraught parents at bedside waiting for the (then) inevitable end. They started going from bed to bed injecting their extract. They moved all through the ward. By the time they reached the final patient, the first was beginning to wake up from the diabetic coma. Slowly, to the joy of the parents, one by one the children came back to life.
For this work Bunting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 1923.
Dr. Frederick Banting
