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A life-saving experiment. Always good to hear about something that actually worked and made a real difference.
In 1922, doctors at Toronto General Hospital started treating dying diabetic children with a new experimental therapy called insulin — and over 9 million people alive today are proof that it worked.
1922 children with Type 1 Diabetes had almost no chance of survival. Without treatment, the disease slowly starved the body, and many patients were expected to die.
At the University of Toronto, two researchers, Frederick Banting and Charles Best, worked to isolate a hormone from the pancreas. On January 11, 1922 they tested it on a 14 year old boy, Leonard Thompson, at Toronto General Hospital.
The result was life-changing. Children who had been close to death began to recover. Just a year later, Banting and John James Rickard Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Today, millions of people live normal lives thanks to insulin.
#fun
In 1922, doctors at Toronto General Hospital started treating dying diabetic children with a new experimental therapy called insulin — and over 9 million people alive today are proof that it worked.
1922 children with Type 1 Diabetes had almost no chance of survival. Without treatment, the disease slowly starved the body, and many patients were expected to die.
At the University of Toronto, two researchers, Frederick Banting and Charles Best, worked to isolate a hormone from the pancreas. On January 11, 1922 they tested it on a 14 year old boy, Leonard Thompson, at Toronto General Hospital.
The result was life-changing. Children who had been close to death began to recover. Just a year later, Banting and John James Rickard Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Today, millions of people live normal lives thanks to insulin.
#fun
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