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25th Anniversary Edition. By Michael Bliss. 304 pp., illustrated. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007. $22.50. ISBN 978-0-226-05899-3.

During the past century, medical science has produced numerous remarkable therapeutic achievements, but few accomplishments can rival — in terms of importance or drama — the development of insulin in 1921 and 1922. The heroic outlines of the story can be sketched briefly: Frederick Banting, a 29-year-old surgeon struggling with debt, has a flash of insight and travels to Toronto, where he manages to convince a skeptical professor of physiology — the esteemed J.J.R. Macleod — to provide him with laboratory support for a few months during the summer of 1921. For a month, Macleod helps Banting get up and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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