MI: Insulin History

  • 400

    Indians Discovery

    Indians Discovery
    During the 4th century indians noted ants congregating by diabetics urine.
  • Period: 400 to

    MI: Insulin

  • Thomas Willis

    Thomas Willis
    The sweet smell of urine was first noted in the 17th century by Thomas Willis.
  • John Rollo

    John Rollo
    John Rollo a Surgeon-General to the royal artillery, treated a patient by dietary restrictions.
  • Claude Bernard

    Claude Bernard
    Claude Bernard was a pharmacist in France and all of Europe. He discovered the liver stored glycogen and secreted a substance into the blood. Back then they thought that the nervous system controlled secretory organs. Which he then thought that by poking the brainstem of an animal caused temporary diabetes. When he died he was given a state funeral.
  • Von Mering

    Von Mering
    Von Mering disproved Bernard's theory. Removed the pancreas caused diabetes. They tried extracting antidiabetic substance from the pancreas but could not.
  • Fredrick Banting

    Fredrick Banting
    In Canada Fredrick Banting discovered insulin and found two dogs with diabetes. He put the extract insulin in one and nothing into the other. The dog who recieved the extract lived and the other died.
  • FIrst Human Test

    FIrst Human Test
    A 14 year old boy was the first human to recieve insulin that was made by Banting and Best.
  • Injections

    Injections
    Purified injections of insulin were given by Collop.
  • Insulin

    Insulin
    Insulin was being produced commercially.
  • J.J. Abel

    J.J. Abel
    J.J. Abel crystallized insulin. Fredrick Sanger found 2 chains of 51 amino acids linked by disulphide bridges.
  • New Insulin

    New Insulin
    Protamine zinc insluin was introduced.
  • New insulin

    New insulin
    Lente insulins were introduced.
  • 3D structure

    3D structure
    3D structure of insluin was made by Dorthy Hodgin at Oxford University.