On April 15, 1923, insulin became widely available as a treatment for diabetes.
Diabetes was one of the first diseases described, with an Egyptian manuscript from c. 1500 BCE mentioning ‘too great emptying of the urine’. Diabetes had been a fatal disease until medical breakthroughs in the early 1920s.
Read on to learn more about the discovery of the cure and the dramatic moment the researchers went from bed to bed, injecting an entire ward with the first successful doses.
Before they had reached the last dying child, the first few were awakening from their comas, to the joyous exclamations of their families.
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source: healthcentral.com
compiled by: Sellwane Khakhau
