For many years, scientists believed that some kind of internal secretion of the pancreas was the key to preventing diabetes and controlling normal metabolism. No one could find it, until in the summer of 1921 a team at the University of Toronto began trying a new experimental approach suggested by Dr. Frederick Banting. One of the most important breakthroughs of the world, Insulin. Dr. Charles Best (University of Toronto, Canada) sits down with Dr. Liston of the British Medical Association to discuss his revolutionary discovery of insulin in 1922 with Dr.
Frederick Banting. In attendance is Dr. Robert Daniel Lawrence of London, who was one of the first patients to receive insulin. Dr. Lawrence likely would not have lived were it not for this remarkable discovery. However, he may not have escaped completely from the complications of diabetes, as he appears to have Weber's syndrome…
