The History of Diabetes

By doegekay
  • Sugar in Urine

    Sugar in Urine

    In the early 1800s, researchers developed first tests to look for sugar in urine
  • Bernard

    Bernard

    Bernard found that the liver stores glycogen and secretes a sugary substance into the blood
  • Eat Sugar

    Eat Sugar

    French Physician, Priorry, instructed diabetic patients to eat sugar. He was incorrect.
  • Von Mering

    Von Mering

    Von Mering found that removing the pancreas can cause diabetes
  • Frederick Banting

    Frederick Banting

    Frederick Banting discovered insulin from experimenting with dogs
  • First Insulin Injection

    First Insulin Injection

    A 14 year old boy with diabetes was injected with insulin for the first time, but it failed and he passed away
  • Purified Insulin

    Purified Insulin

    Insulin was purified and then injected into diabetic patients, this time successful
  • Insulin Produced Commercially

    Insulin Produced Commercially

    Insulin commerical production and distribution began
  • Discovery Insulin Composition

    Discovery Insulin Composition

    Insulin was crystallized by JJ Abel and Frederick Sanger found that the composition of insulin consists of two chains of 51 amino acids and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Symptom Connections

    Symptom Connections

    The first links between diabetes and kidney and eye disease were made.
  • Types

    Types

    Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes were identified.
  • Blood Glucose Strips

    Blood Glucose Strips

    Strips were invented for dripping blood onto a sheet of paper, allowing it to dry for one minute and then comparing the color to tesgt for glucose levels in blood
  • Recombinant Insulin Approved

    Recombinant Insulin Approved

    FDA approved the first recombinant Insulin (lispro/Humalog)