| LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. | 875 |
| Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius |
Diabetes: Its Cause
and Its Treatment
With Insulin
Russell M. Wilder, M. D.
With an Introduction by
Morris Fishbein, M. D.
HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY
GIRARD, KANSAS
LITTLE BLUE BOOK HEALTH SERIES
Edited by
MORRIS FISHBEIN, M. D.
Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and Associate Editor, Hygeia, a Journal of Individual and Community Health.
Copyright, 1925,
Haldeman-Julius Company.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
[Pg 5]
INTRODUCTION
When the scientific body that awards the Nobel prize each year met toconsider the award for 1923, there was no question or debate as to thediscovery that merited the honor. The prize was granted to DoctorsF. G. Banting and J. J. R. MacLeod of Toronto for their work in thediscovery of insulin, and each immediately donated one-half the awardto colleagues who had shared in this discovery, Doctors C. H. Best andJ. B. Collip.
In November, 1920, Dr. Banting, who had returned from war service,was practicing medicine in London, Ontario, and was demonstratingphysiology in the medical school of Western University at thatplace. While reading an article in a surgical magazine, he chancedon a sentence which aroused the trai