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The discovery of Insulin and the story of Dr Frederick Banting, practitioner, surgeon and lecturer from London, Ontario, and his young associate Charles Best, medical student at the University of Toronto, who struggled against the scepticism of other doctors, the press of time, the restrictions of limited means, and discouragement, to discover a treatment for diabetes. Shows how they persisted with their experiments on diabetic dogs until they lowered the high blood sugar content in diabetes by an injection of insulin.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
306270
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Canada
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Banting, Frederick
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Best, Charles
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diabetes
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Insulin
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine - Research
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)
16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)