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Just before dark, one evening last week in Toronto, a big, camouflaged bomber swooped in from the east. From it was taken the mortal remains of Major Sir Frederick Grant Banting, world-famed co-discoverer of insulin, dead at 49 after a bomber in which he was flying to England crashed in Newfoundland (TIME, March...
Newshawks (whom he hated) and col leagues last week recalled some episodes of Sir Frederick's turbulent career. He was a stubborn man of strong feelings, sudden temper, trenchant speech. After insulin was discovered in 1921, Biochemist James Bertram Collip was called in to polish up the glandular extraction technique. The stuff began to be called "Collip's extract." Banting leaped on Collip in the university halls, threw him down, banged his head on the floor, bellowed: "So, you will call this 'Collip's extract,' will...
Died. Sir Frederick Grant Banting, 49, University of Toronto professor who won the Nobel Prize (1923) as co-discoverer of insulin, since the start of World War II had served as captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps; with three others, when a military plane crashed in Newfoundland...
...great problem is how to prevent this apparently hereditary disease. Last week the New England Journal of Medicine published an article telling how various workers had prevented diabetes in animals. Authors: Charles Herbert Best, co-discoverer of insulin, Reginald Evan Haist and James Campbell of the University of Toronto...
...scientists experimented with dogs, gave some of them injections of anterior pituitary extract until their islets were worn out and their insulin content very low. Then they fed one set of animals a normal diet. Set No 2 got no food for several days. Set No. 3 got only fats. Set No. 4 got insulin and a normal amount of carbohydrates. Results: the first group developed severe diabetes; the others soon returned to normal insulin production and good health. Fasting and fat-feeding, as well as insulin injections, said the doctors, "allow the pancreatic islets to rest," give them time...