It was 1922, and that hospital ward in Toronto was, basically, a room for goodbyes. 😔 Children with diabetes in comas, bodies wasting away with no one in the world knowing how to stop it. The parents, sitting at the edge of each bed, could only wait.
Then Frederick Banting, a young surgeon, and Charles Best, a medical student, arrived. They went through the ward bed by bed injecting a substance they had been working on for months. By the time they reached the last bed, at the other end of the room, the first child had already opened his eyes. 👀
One by one, the children came back. And that room that minutes earlier smelled of death filled with parents crying, unable to fully understand what they were seeing. What Banting and Best had isolated for the first time that year would change the history of medicine forever. It is called insulin. 💉