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French physician Apollinaire Bouchardat
diabetic patients' symptoms improved due to war-related food rationing, and he developed individualized diets as diabetes treatments. This led to fad diets of the early 1900s, such as the "oat-cure," "potato therapy," and the "starvation diet." -
Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering
researchers at the University of Strasbourg in France, showed that the removal of a dog's pancreas could induce diabetes. This led to the use of insulin. -
Georg Zuelzer, a German scientist,
found that injecting pancreatic extract into patients could help control diabetes. -
Frederick Banting, a physician in Ontario, Canada
Idea to use insulin to treat diabetes in 1920, and he and his colleagues began trying out his theory in animal experiments. -
More than just Tates
Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) was first introduced. -
Frederick Banting
Banting and his team finally used insulin to treat a diabetic patient successfully in 1922 and they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine the following year. -
Need of longer acting Insulin
There was an obvious need for a longer acting insuli, and in 1936, protamine zinc insulin was introduced. -
Tablets for testing glucose
Tablets for testing urine glucose become widely available. This is simpler than using Benedict’s solution, which must be mixed with urine and heated over boiling water. -
Strips for testing glucose in blood
In 1964, Miles released Dextrostix®, reagent strips for testing blood glucose. -
A1c and Insulin pumps
A1c test. First proposed as a measure of blood glucose control, it is widely used today in both clinical and research applications. The HbA1c measurement reflects blood sugar over a period of months rather than a single point in time. 1976: AutoSyringe Inc begin to manufacture and market the pumps Dean Kamen invented
