Frederick G. Banting: Giving Prospects for Life From the Past to the New Millennium

• Published in: Archives of surgery (Chicago. 1960) Vol. 141; no. 7; pp. 705 - 707
• Main Author: MacLeod, Jana B. A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Medical Association 01.07.2006
• Subjects: Banting; Diabetes Mellitus - history; Endocrinology - history; General Surgery - history; History, 20th Century; Humans; Nobel Prize; Ontario; Ontario

It was early and the patients bore our presence as we switched on lights, pulled back covers, and inquired about bodily functions. It was the early morning hours, and we were performing morning resident rounds in a university-teaching hospital. One lady was sitting up, ready for the residents. She w...