[WiseWords]

On the Use of Insulin:
"Insulin is a remedy primarily for the wise and not for the foolish,
whether they be patients or doctors.
Everyone knows it requires brains to live long with diabetes,
but to use insulin successfully requires more than brains."
Elliot Joslin (1923)

Another little quote about the future of
control with insulin,
perhaps in regard to the current technology of pumps:
"In using insulin it would of course be ideal if it could be
supplied so as to imitate the natural process."
Macleod and Campbell, co-discoverers of insulin with
Banting and Best, said in 1925.

[Andrea]

Ain't that the truth!

My great grandfather was a rich land developper in the first quarter of the 20th century in Toronto. He had diabetes. Fredrick Banting went to see him in 1923 once insulin was being manufactured to offer some to my great grandfather and to ask him for funding for more research on insulin and diabetes. Apparently he gave the donation but decided not to try this "new fancy medicine". He died in 1925 of diabetes complications.

Unfortunately, the fortune got mismanaged by his business partner and what was left in the family was used by my great grandmother to raise the 5 small kids she was left with when he died. All i got to inherit was the diabetes!!

Andrea