Sgt Stripes Posted 11 July , 2022 Share Posted 11 July , 2022 Was Diabetes treatable in WW1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffnut453 Posted 11 July , 2022 Share Posted 11 July , 2022 I don’t think so. IIRC insulin treatments only date from the early 1920s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KernelPanic Posted 11 July , 2022 Share Posted 11 July , 2022 1 hour ago, Buffnut453 said: I don’t think so. IIRC insulin treatments only date from the early 1920s. Correct. Insulin was discovered in 1921 by Frederick Banting and Charles Best in Toronto. It was first used as a treatment a year later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffnut453 Posted 11 July , 2022 Share Posted 11 July , 2022 I had a great-great uncle who served in the South Lancs Regt who died of diabetes in 1895 so I'd done some cursory investigation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aconnolly Posted 12 July , 2022 Share Posted 12 July , 2022 There are two types of diabetes - As noted above Insulin dependent diabetes only treatable after discovery of insulin in 1921 (first used in humans 1922) otherwise it was universally fatal, but the second type (Non-insulin dependent diabetes) was long known to be a cause of ill-health especially with obese people so that "less severe" form was treatable by weight loss and improved diet etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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