![]() ![]() How this story has been reported has varied remarkably over time Michael Bliss’s The Discovery of Insulin, published in 1982, is the current gold standard. ![]() On January 23, 1922, Walter Campbell administered a pancreatic extract purified by biochemist Bert Collip to fourteen-year-old Leonard Thompson at Toronto General Hospital (TGH), sealing the Toronto team’s immortality. In 1921, Fred Banting and Charley Best, working under the supervision of JJR Macleod, made crude pancreatic extracts from duct-ligated dog, fetal bovine, or whole adult bovine pancreata and used these to treat diabetes in depancreatized dogs. Maligning Macleod and “Bettering” Best: the discovery of insulin as depicted in film before Michael Bliss October 28, 2021 ![]()
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