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In 1921, Fred Bantling, a Canadian surgeon, believed
that a pancreatic extract could normalize blood sugar in diabetics.
Bantling (right) is seen with his student assistant, Charles
Best, and their research dog Marjorie, who was the first animal
to receive insulin. Courtesy of Eli Lilly & Company |
 Relying on crude equipment, Bantling, Best, and other researchers at the University of Toronto used "bathroom chemistry" to develop the life-saving solution. Courtesy of Eli Lilly & Company |
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Widely published photographs demonstrated insulin's miraculous power
to literally restore flesh to bones.
Courtesy of Eli Lilly & Company
 Born in 1907, Elizabeth Evans Hughes was the daughter of one oif the most prominent men in America, but she herself became famous as the poster girl of the new "diabetic cure". She later married, had children, and traveled the world, but she concealed her disease at all costs, even from her own children. |
 Courtesy of the University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library |