An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

BANTING, Sir Frederick Grant

4 entries
  • 1205
  • 3967

The internal secretion of the pancreas.

J. Lab. clin. Med., 7, 251-66, 1921 – 1922.

This paper reports the isolation of insulin. An extract from the pancreas of a dog, removed after ligation of the excretory duct, was found to exercise a reducing influence on the percentage of sugar in the blood. Digital facsimile from insulin.library.utoronto.ca at this link.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Pancreas, HEPATOLOGY, Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes
  • 3966

The internal secretion of the pancreas. (Abstract).

Amer. J. Physiol., 59, 479, 1922.

A preliminary one-page communication regarding the isolation of insulin, made to a meeting of the American Physiological Society in December 1921. Digital facsimile from insulin.library.utoronto.ca at this link.

In 1923 Banting and Macleod were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of insulin." Banting was only 32 years old at the time. When I wrote this note in 2017 Banting remained the youngest person to receive the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. See also Nos. 1205, 3967 and 3968.



Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 3968

Pancreatic extracts in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.

Canad. med. Ass. J., 12, 141-46, 1922.

The first clinical application of insulin in the treatment of diabetes. Co-authored by W. R. Campbell, and A. A. Fletcher. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.



Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes
  • 3970

Insulin.

Int. Clin., 34 ser., 4, 109-16, 1924.


Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes