Wednesday, January 22, 2014

History of Diabetes,1th Century Diabetes



Diabetes isn't a newly born disease, it has been with mankind from long back, however we came to knew regarding it in 1552 B.C. During 1st Century A.D diabetes described by Arateus as 'the melting down of flesh and limbs into urine. Diabetes was given its name by the Greek Physician Aretaeus (thirty-90CE). He recorded a disease with symptoms such as constant thirst (polydipsia), excessive urination (polyuria) and loss of weight. Nearly five,000 years ago in India, the physician Susruta described a disease "brought on by gluttonous overindulgence in rice, flour, and sugar," in that urine is "like an elephant's in quantity.

Early 19th Century 1st chemical tests developed to indicate and live the presence of sugar in the urine. Diabetic diet was formulated with inclusion of milk, oats and alternative fibre containing foods in 190zero-1915. Function of insulin, its nature, along with its use had taken time from 1920 -1923, discovered by Dr Banting, Prof. Macleod and Dr.Collip, who were awarded a Noble prize. In the last decade of 1940, it had been discovered that different organs like kidney and skin are affected if diabetes is creeping from a future. January 23, 192a pair of Dr. Collip's insulin extracts 1st tested on a human being, a 14-year-previous boy named Leonard Thompson, in Toronto; treatment thought-about a success by the tip of the subsequent February.

Helen Free check was invented. In the mid-Nineteen Forties, Alfred Free and Helen Murray were both chemists operating along in the biochemistry analysis cluster at Miles Laboratories. In the 1960's, a muffin was a little breakfast treat, sometimes home baked. A homemade blueberry muffin, using a regular-sized muffin tin, is about a hundred calories and vi grams of fatArticle Submission, depending on the recipe. It's regarding the dimensions of a tennis ball. During 1970 Blood glucose meters and insulin pumps are developed. Laser therapy is used to help slow or stop blindness in some individuals with diabetes. When 1983 came introduced first biosynthetic human insulin. 75th Anniversary of the invention of insulin celebrated around the planet in1996. 

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