Treating Diabetes

Treat Diabetes with Deit Restrictions

1706

First treatment: John Rollo, Surgeon-General to the Royal Artillery treated a patient by dietary restriction in 1706

Treat with eating not sugar or drinking

1900

This killed people more often than not

Banting and Best isolate insulin

1921

Two scientists are able to isolate insulin for the first time. They gave it to a boy to prove that it did lower blood sugar levels.

Commerically Manufactoring and Isolating Insulin

1923

Eli Lilly, of Indianapolis, IN, with whom the researches collaborated to produce insulin and ship it to other countires. These insulins were crude and impure and early patients had to endure intramuscular injections of 5 to18 ml. Pain and abscesses were common.

protamine zinc insulin was introduced

1936

longer lasting and much more pure

lente insulins were introduced

1954