An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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MACLEOD, John James Rickard

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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. Banting and Macleod were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923. Banting was only 32 years old at the time. When I wrote this note in 2017 Banting remained the youngest person to every receive the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. Digital facsimile from insulin.library.utoronto.ca at this link.



Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes