Frederick Banting
Frederick Banting
Sir Frederick Grant Banting KBE MC FRS FRSCwas a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter and Nobel laureate noted as the first person to use insulin on humans...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth14 November 1891
CityAlliston, Canada
CountryCanada
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The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.
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Diabetes mellitus is due to a deficiency of the internal secretion of the pancreas. The main principle of treatment is, therefore, to correct this deficiency.
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I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.
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Intravenous injections of extract from dog's pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing influence upon the percentage sugar of the blood and the amount of sugar excreted in the urine ... the extent and duration of the reduction varies directly with the amount of extract injected.
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If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.
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Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.