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Frederick Banting, MD, was a Canadian physician, scientist and Nobel Prize winner noted for his part in the discovery of insulin as a treatment for diabetes.
While preparing a lecture on the pancreas on Oct. 30, 1920, Frederick Banting, MD, had an epiphany. He believed that he had stumbled upon a long sought-after treatment for diabetes.
Diabetes was a death sentence. People with the disease withered away, living a few years at most. Although