There are two major types of diabetes.
One is insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or juvenile-onset diabetes which is usually called type
1 diabetes and the other non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or maturity-onset diabetes which is usually called type 2 diabetes.
1. Beginnings
In 1552 B.C, Hesy-Ra who was an Egyptian internal medicine doctor recorded frequently urination as a symptom of a incomprehensible disease that also caused weakness. Also around this time, ancient healers attended that ants seemed to be interested in the urine of people who had this illness. Arateus who was the Greek internal medicine doctor 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 comprehend how it could be heal. The first diabetes cure 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 large amounts of sugar. In 1916, there was Elliott Joslin who was Boston scientist. He was one of the world's leading diabetes experts established the theory book which is the cure of Diabetes Mellitus. That reported a fasting diet which combined with regular exercise could significantly reduce the risk of death in diabetes patients. Today, doctors and diabetes educators still use these principles when …show more content…
Insulin
In spite of these developments, before the discovery of insulin, diabetes inevitable led to premature death. 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
One is insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or juvenile-onset diabetes which is usually called type
1 diabetes and the other non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or maturity-onset diabetes which is usually called type 2 diabetes.
1. Beginnings
In 1552 B.C, Hesy-Ra who was an Egyptian internal medicine doctor recorded frequently urination as a symptom of a incomprehensible disease that also caused weakness. Also around this time, ancient healers attended that ants seemed to be interested in the urine of people who had this illness. Arateus who was the Greek internal medicine doctor 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 comprehend how it could be heal. The first diabetes cure 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 large amounts of sugar. In 1916, there was Elliott Joslin who was Boston scientist. He was one of the world's leading diabetes experts established the theory book which is the cure of Diabetes Mellitus. That reported a fasting diet which combined with regular exercise could significantly reduce the risk of death in diabetes patients. Today, doctors and diabetes educators still use these principles when …show more content…
Insulin
In spite of these developments, before the discovery of insulin, diabetes inevitable led to premature death. 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