Dr. Frederick Banting Diabetes

Dr. Frederick Banting was a surgeon with a bachelor’s degree in medicine. Dr. Banting practiced medicine in Toronto, Canada. In 1920 he had the idea that the pancreas secreted a digestive juice from the islets of Langerhans which in turned caused harm to the pancreas. Up until this point nobody knew what the islet of Langerhans produced or secreted, a student discovered these islets but did not know their purpose and these islets are named after the student who discovered them. Dr. Banting believed that if he stopped the flow from the pancreatic ducts to the pancreas it would cause the pancreas to shrink and lose its ability to secrete its digestive juices. Then after that was done they could go into the pancreas and extract the antidiabetic secretion without it being damaged. He then took his idea to a professor who was in charge of the study of diabetes at the University Of Toronto. His idea wasn’t took into consideration much but he convinced the professor and was given a lab with minimal equipment, ten dogs and a student by the name of Charles Best.