The Discovery of Insulin

This edition of a landmark work of scholarship includes both a new preface by the author and a new foreword that places the book in its historical context.

When insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, even jaded professionals marveled at how it brought starved, sometimes comatose patients with diabetes back to life. Defying the average timeline, the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for its discovery. To recount the fascinating story behind the discovery of insulin...