01/23/1922, Leonard Thompson, after entering pain in the General Hospital of Toronto (Canada), was treated by diabetes with an experimental treatment.The young man, then 14 years old, had no options: his illness was assuring him of a safe death, so his father gave his endorsement and crossed his fingers.
Diabetes is an extended disease, and unfortunately, the definitive cure has not yet been found, although the technological advances that allow those who suffer from this disease lead a "normal" life, as long as they take the necessary care.
For many years, type 1 diabetes patients were directly terminally ill, treated with different drugs that would avoid pain and grant a dignified death to the sick.This was so for many years, taking into account that this disease claims to have its beginnings in the Egypt Antigup, until 1922 when Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Best discovered the "isletin", the new pancreatic extract later known as "insulin."
On 01/23/1922 when, Leonard Thompson, after entering pain in the General Hospital of Toronto, was attack by diabetes with an experimental treatment.The young man of the time 14 years of age had no options, his illness was assuring him a safe death, so his father gave his endorsement and crossed his fingers.
Banting and Best were not the creators of insulin, because - once - insulin is a hormone.However, they were the first to present it as a diabetes treatment, after having performed multiple tests.
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