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First treatment: John Rollo, Surgeon-General to the Royal Artillery treated a patient by dietary restriction in 1706
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This killed people more often than not
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Two scientists are able to isolate insulin for the first time. They gave it to a boy to prove that it did lower blood sugar levels.
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Eli Lilly, of Indianapolis, IN, with whom the researches collaborated to produce insulin and ship it to other countires. These insulins were crude and impure and early patients had to endure intramuscular injections of 5 to18 ml. Pain and abscesses were common.
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longer lasting and much more pure
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