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Originally Posted by seacomp  I have to wonder what the very early items are. Insulin was not discovered until the 20s; there was no diabetic treatment available before then except extreme diet.
It would be great if you post some picture of your stuff. If you're a good photographer, comparison pictures of early versus modern syringes would be interesting. |
My parents have an old two-volume medical book is dated pre-insulin days. It was "fun" reading about diabetes and all they knew back then -- and shockingly, some of their suspicions were right. It basically said no cure was available.
Some old pages about Diabetes from old books are available here on books.google.com:
diabetes - Google Book Search
