An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16077 entries, 14165 authors and 1948 subjects. Updated: May 6, 2025

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  • 3966

The internal secretion of the pancreas. (Abstract).

Amer. J. Physiol., 59, 479, 1922.

A preliminary one-page communication regarding the isolation of insulin, made to a meeting of the American Physiological Society in December 1921. Digital facsimile from insulin.library.utoronto.ca at this link.

In 1923 Banting and Macleod were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of insulin." Banting was only 32 years old at the time. When I wrote this note in 2017 Banting remained the youngest person to receive the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. See also Nos. 1205, 3967 and 3968.



Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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