the original patents for insulin were sold for 1 dollar btw. because Frederick Banting and his codevelopers whose names I can't remember wanted it to be affordable and widely available. btw
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the original patents for insulin were sold for 1 dollar btw. because Frederick Banting and his codevelopers whose names I can't remember wanted it to be affordable and widely available. btw
1922. Une salle de l’hôpital de Toronto est remplie de lits, dans chacun, un enfant plongé dans le coma. Dans chaque coin, un père ou une mère en larmes tous ont reçu le même diagnostic : acidocétose diabétique. Une sentence de mort, sans appel. Mais quelque chose est sur le point de changer. Un groupe de scientifiques entre dans la pièce ils tiennent des seringues dans les mains, et une lueur d’espoir au bout des doigts. Dirigés par Frederick Banting
Ils viennent tester un nouveau médicament l’insuline, un extrait encore expérimental, le tout premier du genre.
Lit après lit, ils avancent, ils injectent chaque enfant, un par un. Certains médecins ne peuvent dissimuler leur tremblement les parents ne comprennent pas vraiment ce qui se passe, mais dans une pièce où l’on n’attendait plus que la mort, le moindre geste devient un possible miracle. Puis, lorsque la dernière injection est faite, l’impensable survient le premier enfant ouvre les yeux. Puis un autre et encore un autre et encore un. Un à un, les petits se réveillent la salle, qui ressemblait à un funérarium silencieux, éclate en sanglots mais cette fois, ce sont des sanglots de soulagement, de joie. Ce jour-là, l’humanité n’a pas seulement trouvé un traitement. Ce jour-là, nous avons vu la science rendre la vie. Et Frederick Banting, avec son équipe, écrivit avec l’insuline l’une des pages les plus lumineuses de l’histoire de la médecine.
Frederick Banting (14 November 1891 – 21 February 1941)
#16 history ask (if you're still into it—if not the jettison this; thank you).
I am definitely still into it!!! #16: Opinion on a figure on your country’s currency (pick the one on the highest value of currency) Hmmm that would be Sir Robert Borden, since the $1,000 bill is no longer in circulation. Good Ol' Bobby B! Prime Minister 1911-1920. Haven't thought of him in ages, but he loomed large in my childhood because there's an army base named after him near my hometown. My verdict: he was okay, I guess? Helped win Great War—cool, cool. Votes for Women—great! Using the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to crush the Winnipeg General Strike? Ehhh not so cool. Now, on the other side of the current Hundo is a 'researcher' at a microscope and a bottle of insulin, which is a nod to Banting, Best, Collip, et al. For the public good, they sold their patents to the University of Toronto for $1 each, which definitely earns them all mad props in my book.
Treatment vs. Cure 💉
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Discovering a cure would have been best, although a treatment is better than nothing at all. If you think about it, the Big Pharma may have actually gotten ahold of antidotes for many diseases but, unfortunately, producing cures would hamper their goals of profiteering the masses.
Frederick Banting; Cobalt
In a regular column on the PBS NewsHour website, Dr. Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, will highlight the anniversary of a momentous event that continues to shape modern medicine. On Jan. 11, 1922, a 14-year-old boy hovered between life and death. His name was Leonard Thompson and he was suffering the end stages of diabetes mellitus. Leonard Thompson. Photo courtesy of Eli Lilly and
Happy 98th anniversary of the reason why I’m not dead!
Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.
Sir Frederick Banting