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John Rollo, Surgeon-General treated diabetes with dietary restrictions.
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Von Mering discovered removing the pancreas caused diabetes
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Fredrick Banting prepared an extract made of an atrophied pancreas and gave it to one dog with diabetes and compared how he did to the control dog who had diabetes and got no extract. The dog with the extract lived three more weeks than the control dog who died after four days.
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Banting and Best give 14-year old boy insulin, the first human to receive it
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After the first insulin injection failed it was purified and administered again by Collip, which worked
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Throughout the majority of western countries insulin was being commercially produced to treat diabetes
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Result of impure insulin that caused abscess and pain
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As a result of impure insulin that caused pain and abscesses
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Made by J.J. Abel two chains of 51 amino acids connected by disulphide bridges. This was discovered by fredrick Sanger in 1955
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Created by Solomon Berson and Rosalind Yalow, small concentrations of insulin can be measured
