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In 1922, Mrs. Thompson pleaded with doctors in Toronto to save her dying child. Banting and Best (1) had recently shown that a pancreatic extract could lower blood glucose in diabetic dogs, but never before had the hypoglycemic hormone, insulin, been given to a human being. Leonard Thompson thus became the first person to receive insulin. He not only recovered but grew into his third decade, eventually dying from pneumonia.
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Jovanovic-Peterson, L., Formby, B., Wollitzer, A.O., Peterson, C.M. (1995). The Use of Human Fetal Islet Tissue for Adjunctive Treatment in Insulin-Dependent Diabetic Patients: The Case for “Partial Success”. In: Peterson, C.M., Jovanovic-Peterson, L., Formby, B. (eds) Fetal Islet Transplantation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1981-2_8
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