An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 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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The internal secretion of the pancreas.

J. Lab. clin. Med., 7, 251-66, 1921 – 1922.

This paper reports the isolation of insulin. An extract from the pancreas of a dog, removed after ligation of the excretory duct, was found to exercise a reducing influence on the percentage of sugar in the blood. Digital facsimile from insulin.library.utoronto.ca at this link.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Pancreas, HEPATOLOGY, Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes
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