Banting, Best, and Diabetes, from "The History of Medicine" / Robert Thom
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- UMHS.43
- Title
- Banting, Best, and Diabetes, from "The History of Medicine"
- Artist
- Robert Thom
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1915-1979
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1952
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Michigan (state)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Michigan (state)
- Dimensions
- 153.04 cm x 123.83 cm (60 1/4 in. x 48 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- During the summer of 1921, Charles H. Best, youthful biologist, and Dr. Frederick G. Banting experiemented in laboratories loanded by Professor J.J.R. Macleod of the Physiology Department, University of Toronto. The inexperienced Canadian investigators found what trained research men before them had missed -- an extract of the pancreas the controlled the high blood sugar of diabetes mellitus. Proved and reproved on laboratory animals, their extract was tried on a human diabetic in February, 1922. Best developed mass production methods while studying for a medical degree. Banting and Best's discovery of insulin gave hope of life to millions of diabetics who otherwise would have been doomed.
- Secondary Keywords
- disciplines
- health sciences
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in health and medicine
- people in science-related occupations
- science and related disciplines
- scientists and people in science-related occupations
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- UMHS.43
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-umhs.43/umhs.43.jpg
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"Banting, Best, and Diabetes, from "The History of Medicine"; Robert Thom." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-umhs.43/umhs.43.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
