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Rhazes (c. 865 –925), or Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, included writings about diabetes in the more than 230 books he produced in his lifetime. [ 33 ] Avicenna (980–1037), or Ibn Sina, was a court physician to the caliphs of Baghdad and a key figure in medicine who compiled an exhaustive medical encyclopedia titled The Canon of Medicine .
Charles Herbert Best (February 27, 1899 – March 31, 1978), was an American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin with Frederick Banting.He served as the chair of the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at the University of Toronto and was further involved in research concerning choline and heparin.
Born in Iowa, Allen studied medicine in California and obtained a fellowship at Harvard University to work on sugar consumption. He soon became obsessed with diabetes. In 1913, he privately printed a 1179-page book on diabetes that described hundreds of animal experiments and featured a 1200-item bibliography.
A 1919 book for veterans, from the US War Department. The social trauma caused by unprecedented rates of casualties manifested itself in different ways, which have been the subject of subsequent historical debate. [26] Over 8 million Europeans died in the war. Millions suffered permanent disabilities.
Gladys Boyd, paediatrician, pioneer in the treatment of juvenile diabetes. Charles Best, co-discoverer of insulin. Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, a notable early recipient of insulin. Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin. Islets of Langerhans; Pancreas; James D. Havens, first American to receive insulin from Toronto.
Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett (August 19, 1907 – April 21, 1981), the daughter of statesman Charles Evans Hughes, was the first American, and one of the first people in the world, treated with insulin for type 1 diabetes. She received over 42,000 insulin shots over her lifetime. [1]
Robert "Robin" Daniel Lawrence (18 November 1892 – 27 August 1968) was a British physician at King’s College Hospital, London. He was diagnosed with diabetes in 1920 and became an early recipient of insulin injections in the UK in 1923.
The book "Beckman's Internal Medicine" [Note 1] described the methods that Frederick Banting and Charles Best first used to extract insulin from the pancreases of dogs, calves, and cows in 1921. A Chinese chemist lent them a small laboratory in the basement of a municipal building, where they attempted to extract insulin from pancreata of water ...