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Claude Bernard discovered that the liver stored glycogen and secreted a sugary substance into the blood.
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A physician by the name of Priorry advised his diabetic patients to eat large amount of sugar as a treatment.
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Apollainaire Bouchardat, a French physician, noticed that the amount of glucose in the urine of his diabetes patients decreased while there was a rationing of food. This led his to develop the idea of individualized diets and advised his patients to start eating less.
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Cj Von Noorden believed he found the cure for diabetes was to eat oatmeal and butter every two hours. The maximum amount that could be eaten each day was eight ounces of oatmeal with eight ounces of butter.
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In Berlin,George Zuelzer injected acomatrol, a substance secreted from the pancreas, into a diabetic patient and found that glycosuria decreased. However, once the acomatrol was used up, the patient died.
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S. R. Benedict creates the Benedict Solution test which detects the presence of glucose in the urine.
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Dr.Banting comes up with the idea of Insulin after reading the article The Relation of the Islets of Langerhans to Diabetics with Special Refernce to Cases of Pancreatic Lithiasis by Moses Barron.
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Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin when they successfully treated a de-pancreatized dog with insulin.
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A 14 year old boy was the first to recieve the insulin treatment but it failed. Weeks later a purified injection was created by Collip and the glucose blood levels dropped.
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Becton Dickinson (BD) created the first syrnge for insulin injections.
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J.J. Abel crystallized insulin.
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Protamine zinc insulin, a longer acting type of insulin, was created.
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Another longer acting treatment called the lente insulin was created.
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Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are recognized.
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Dr. Arnold Kadish designed the very first pump. This pump was able to to deliever both insuin and glucagon.
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Novo Nordisk introduces the purest insulin available called Monocomponent insulin.
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The insulin pen was introduced in the U.S.
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There are different types of insulin available, rapid acting, short acting, intermediate acting, and long-acting insulin.
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Insulin can be delivered through a syringe, insulin pen, external insulin pump, inhalable insulin, and insulin jet injectors.
