Discovery Of Insulin

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Insulin saves lives and allows diabetics to live and eat normally. However, insulin wasn’t always seen as a great medicine, in fact, it had to be proved and people persuaded before the idea was welcomed or considered. Medicine itself took years to be proven as a helpful and valuable profession. The discovery of insulin, as with many new discoveries, were possible because of the advances in technology and chemistry. This particular discovery took years and years of researching diabetes and the pancreas. The first wave of a ‘cure for diabetes’ came from Toronto, Canada. Many doctors and editors were skeptical that insulin could be a cure. Doctors knew that it couldn’t be a cure for diabetes and were also scared of announcing as a cure because

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