Diabetes through the ages [electronic resource] / Michael Hall.
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FilmSeries: Henry Stewart talksBiomedical & life sciences collection. Diabetes in perspective: Publisher: London : Henry Stewart Talks, 2013Description: 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (46 min.) : color, sound)Subject(s): Diabetes -- Biography | Diabetes -- History | Insulin -- History | Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 -- biography | Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 -- history | Drug Discovery -- history | Insulin -- historyOnline resources: Click here to access online | Series Animated audio-visual presentation with synchronized narration.
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Contents: Searching for the cause of diabetes -- Diabetes in 19th century -- The islet cells in the pancreas -- Edouard Laguesse -- Oscar Minkoski and J. von Mering -- Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer -- Eugene Opie -- George Ludwig Zuelzer -- Ernest Lyman Scott -- Nicolae Paulescu -- J.J.R. Macleod, C. H. Best and F. G. Banting: their research and story of discovering insulin -- James B. Collip -- Leonard Thompson -- Manufacturing insulin -- The famous case Elizabeth Hughes -- Insulin around the world -- Dr. R. D. Lawrence -- Dr. Ernesto Roma -- Life for a child programme.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.