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Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: Added Burdens Burn Carbohydrates Cure Diabetes Diabetic Diet Economic Enables Energy Fats Insulin Life May Proteins Provide Quantities Sufficient Treatment

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I had been taught that if I cried, to be quiet about it, so whereas I never howled, the least thing made me cry both at school and at home. Crying tends to separate a child from other children, for even children dislike a cry baby, and I had no friends in the world.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: About Baby Been Both Child Children Cried Cry Crying Dislike Even Friends Had Home Least Made Me Never No Friends Other Quiet School Separate Taught Tends Thing Whereas World

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Diabetes mellitus is due to a deficiency of the internal secretion of the pancreas. The main principle of treatment is, therefore, to correct this deficiency.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: Correct Diabetes Due Internal Main Principle Therefore Treatment

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Mr. Best has expressed the desire to work with me, and I should be more than pleased to have him. His work has been excellent, and he is absolutely honest, careful, and impartial and has taken a great interest in the work.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: Absolutely Been Best Careful Desire Excellent Expressed Great He Him His Honest Impartial Interest Me More Pleased Should Taken Than Work Mr

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It was because of Henderson that I stayed... It was he and he alone who kept me in Toronto and in Canada. Were it not for Henderson, I believe insulin would have been a product of the United States.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: Alone Because Been Believe Canada He Insulin Kept Me Product States Stayed Toronto United United States Were Who Would I Believe

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When I go in, I find that it is not a lab but an office. There are a pile of letters to answer, phone numbers to call up, people waiting to have an interview, routine work that must be done.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: Answer Call Done Find Go Interview Lab Letters Must Numbers Office People Phone Pile Routine Up Waiting Work

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Best and I worked in the sub-basement of the old medical building day and night. Time, meals, sleep - all were of secondary consideration. We had to get insulin into a form that was refined enough for continued clinical use.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: Best Building Clinical Consideration Continue Day Day And Night Enough Form Get Had Insulin Meals Medical Night Old Refined Secondary Sleep Time Use Were Worked

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I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: Appreciate Conferred Deeply Honour Me Nobel Nobel Prize Prize Professor Very Which You

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During the first couple of years at school... I used to take my lunch and go down by the old fair grounds & sit alone by the side of the road & eat it... Those lovely, lonely lunches stick deep in my memory as unhappy times.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: Alone Couple Deep Down Eat Fair First Go Grounds Lonely Lovely Lunch Memory Old Road School Side Sit Stick Take Those Times Unhappy Used Years

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In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: Consumption Diabetes Increased Per Sugar

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: November 14th, 1891

Died: February 21st, 1941

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