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1. Introduction
2. In antiquity
3. Searching for the cause
4. Diabetes in 19th century
5. The islet cells in the pancreas
6. Edouard Laguesse
7. Oscar Minkoski and J. von Mering
8. Linking the pancreas to diabetes (1)
9. Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
10. Linking the pancreas to diabetes (2)
11. 1901, Eugene Opie
12. 1906, George Ludwig Zuelzer
13. Ernest Lyman Scott (1)
14. Ernest Lyman Scott (2)
15. Ernest Lyman Scott (3)
16. Nicolae Paulescu
17. Paulescu publishes his findings
18. The role of chance
19. Macleod and chance
20. Treatments before insulin (1)
21. Sam Davidson
22. Treatments before insulin (2)
23. The two key players in 1920 in Canada
24. J.J.R. Macleod
25. Frederick Banting
26. The start of Banting’s research adventure
27. Banting’s great idea
28. The summary of Banting’s idea (1)
29. The summary of Banting’s idea (2)
30. What was “decided” at the meeting
31. How did the meeting really go?
32. To do or not to do…
33. Charles Best
34. The plan for the research
35. Difficulties
36. But optimism ruled & a glimmer of success
37. But in fact there were still problems
38. Solutions to the problems
39. Quick progress
40. James B. Collip
41. Publication
42. Banting pushes for a clinical trial
43. The clinical trial
44. Leonard Thompson (1)
45. Leonard Thompson (2)
46. Quarrels and rewards
47. Manufacturing insulin
48. A famous case
49. Elizabeth Hughes
50. “Unspeakably wonderful”
51. Manufacturing
52. Insulin around the world
53. Dr. R. D. Lawrence
54. Dr. Ernesto Roma
55. 1923 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine
56. Honours
57. John James Rickard Macleod
58. C. H. Best and F. G. Banting
59. Laboratory in which insulin was discovered
60. The islet cells
61. Life for a child programme

Topics Covered

• Searching for the cause of diabetes
• Diabetes in 19th century
• The islet cells in the pancreas
• Edouard Laguesse
• Oscar Minkoski and J. von Mering
• Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
• Eugene Opie
• George Ludwig Zuelzer
• Ernest Lyman Scott
• Nicolae Paulescu
• J.J.R. Macleod, C. H. Best and F. G. Banting: their research and story of discovering insulin
• James B. Collip
• Leonard Thompson
• Manufacturing insulin
• The famous case Elizabeth Hughes
• Insulin around the world
• Dr. R. D. Lawrence
• Dr. Ernesto Roma
• Life for a child programme

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Series:

• Diabetes in Perspective

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Metabolism & Nutrition

Therapeutic Areas:

• Cardiovascular & Metabolic

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Publication History

• Published on May 22, 2013
• Archived on April 30, 2023

Financial Disclosures

• Dr. Michael Stephen Hall has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.