There are two major types of diabetes. One is type 1 diabetes which is previously called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or juvenile-onset diabetes, the other is type 2 diabetes which is previously called non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or maturity-onset diabetes.
1. Beginnings
In 1552 B.C, Hesy-Ra who was an Egyptian physician documented frequently urination as a symptom of a mysterious disease that also caused weakness. Also around this time, ancient healers attented that ants seemed to be interested in the urine of people who had this illness. Arateus who was the Greek physician described what we now call diabetes as "the melting down of flesh into urine in 150 AD.
2. Early Treatments
While physicians researched about diabetes more and more, they began to understand how it could be treated. The first diabetes treatment involved prescribed exercise such as horseback riding which was thought to save excessive urination. In the 1700s and 1800s, physicians began to recognize that dietary changing could help to control diabetes, and they advised their patients to do things like eat only the fat and meat of animals or use up …show more content…
Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering researched at the University of Strasbourg in France. They had first big breakthrough because of using insulin to cure diabetes in 1889. But at that time it could use only animal test. In the early 1900s, there was a German scientist who was Georg Zuelzer. He found that injecting pancreatic extract into patients could help control diabetes. Frederick who was a physician in Canada. He first had the idea to use insulin to treat diabetes in 1920 and he and his colleagues began trying out his theory in animal experiments. Frederick and his team finally used insulin to successfully treat a diabetic patient in 1922. As a result they were received the Nobel Prize in Medicine the following
1. Beginnings
In 1552 B.C, Hesy-Ra who was an Egyptian physician documented frequently urination as a symptom of a mysterious disease that also caused weakness. Also around this time, ancient healers attented that ants seemed to be interested in the urine of people who had this illness. Arateus who was the Greek physician described what we now call diabetes as "the melting down of flesh into urine in 150 AD.
2. Early Treatments
While physicians researched about diabetes more and more, they began to understand how it could be treated. The first diabetes treatment involved prescribed exercise such as horseback riding which was thought to save excessive urination. In the 1700s and 1800s, physicians began to recognize that dietary changing could help to control diabetes, and they advised their patients to do things like eat only the fat and meat of animals or use up …show more content…
Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering researched at the University of Strasbourg in France. They had first big breakthrough because of using insulin to cure diabetes in 1889. But at that time it could use only animal test. In the early 1900s, there was a German scientist who was Georg Zuelzer. He found that injecting pancreatic extract into patients could help control diabetes. Frederick who was a physician in Canada. He first had the idea to use insulin to treat diabetes in 1920 and he and his colleagues began trying out his theory in animal experiments. Frederick and his team finally used insulin to successfully treat a diabetic patient in 1922. As a result they were received the Nobel Prize in Medicine the following