Mackenzie Mick’s Reviews > Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle > Status Update

As a type 1 diabetic, reading a book about the discovery of insulin hits very close to home. Without my insulin injections, I would be dead.

There are recorded symptoms of Diabetes that date back to 1550 BC transcribed on Egyptian papyrus.

Diabetes is named after a Greek word for 'sieve' because the symptomatic incessant thirst and urination made the body act as a sieve.

Before 1922 Diabetes was a death sentence.