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Show Dy DR. SOPHIA BRUNSON : " even treated Banting with afi tion. I Banting did not give public to his experiments because , wanted undisputable proof ' his success before he publish his findings to the world. A famous doctor who was ne death from diabetes, learni: of Banting's experiments wi diabetic dogs, begged that i sulin be administered to him, he was going to die anywa This doctor lived. The ne spread like wild fire. Thoi ands came and pleaded pitiful that Banting would not let the die. The dogs had enabled the two young men to learn tl secret of treating diabetes, ar of saving human lives. At first insulin was very e pensive and hard to obtain. No it has been greatly improvt in quality and is cheap enouf for all diabetic sufferers to g as much as they need. Due to the dogs and Bantin the diabetic sufferer may In his normal span of life on th planet. BANTING WORKED OUT THE ANSWER Mankind is naturally curious This trait has been the means ol great advancement of the human hu-man race. Keen minds observe and study with great interest . what they see and hear about them. Most of the discoveries in medicine have been made by patient men and women who wanted to know so badly that they were willing to work long hours and burn the midnight oil to . find the answer to their queries. People were dying of diabetes dia-betes and no one knew how to save them. A poor young doctor doc-tor wanted to know so badly how to help these sufferers that he begged for a cubby hole in the medical school of the University Uni-versity of Toronto where he could work. A place in the basement base-ment was grudgingly assigned to him. Here he and his young associate sweated out the days in the oppressive heat, while working on the problem. He was supplied with ten dogs with which to carry on his experiments, experi-ments, as he had requested. The young doctor removed the pancreas, which manufactures insulin, from one of the dogs and thereafter fed him on bread and sweet coffee. A large number num-ber of human beings try to live on such a diet. They gave the dog all the bread that he could possibly eat. Poor doggie grew thin and was hungry and thirsty all the time. He was getting no insulin for the pancreas that manufactured it was gone. The dog seemed hardly able to live when Banting took a syringe containing insulin and injected it into his abdominal muscles. The dog seemed to feel better at once. Now the age-old problem of the survival of the diabetic victim was about to be solved. The treatment was continued. The dog grew stronger and again manifested an interest in his surroundings. |