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Before 1922, treatments for type 1 diabetes were limited, including the Allen plan (a diet based on minimising calorific intake), and the prognosis was bleak. Although the pancreas was already thought to produce a substance that, when lacking, resulted in diabetes it was not until the unlikely combination of an orthopaedic surgeon, Frederick Banting, and a medical student, Charles Best, came together...
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