Frederick Banting went to the University of Toronto to study divinity, but quickly transferred to the study of medicine. In 1916 he took his M.B. degree. He later became a medical practitioner in London, Ontario. He then studied orthopaedic medicine and became the Resident Surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto for a year until 1920. The next year Banting taught in orthopaedics at the University of Western Ontario. From 1921 until 1922 he was Lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Toronto. That year he was given the position Senior Demonstrator in Medicine at the University of Toronto. He was made Honorary Consulting Physician to the Toronto General Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children, and the Toronto Western Hospital.
Frederick Banting, on October 31st 1920, wrote down an idea that might prove to be a cure for diabetes. It was for research aimed at isolating an internal secretion of the pancreas. He spoke about this with a professor of physiology at Western, F.R. Miller. He told banting to ask for support for his proposed research at the University of Toronto. Banting began work with the guidance of Professor J.J.R. Macleod and assisted by C.H. Best on May 17th 1921. Eventually, Banting and Best did achieve some results in treating some symptoms of diabetes in dogs. In the winter of 1921–22, insulin was discovered.Banting studied and practiced medicine. He later became interested in finding the cure for diabetes, and began researching this. He eventually had made the biggest advancement anyone had ever made in this area… he discovered insulin.
Here are some of Frederick Banting's most famous quotes:
“If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained." “No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.” “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.” Frederick Banting was born on November 14, 1891, at Alliston, Ontario, Canada. He died on February 21st, 1941 in Newfoundland. He was killed in an air disaster when he served as a liaison officer between the British and North American medical services.
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