Pancreatic Extracts in The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus

@article{Banting1956PancreaticEI,
  title={Pancreatic Extracts in The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus},
  author={Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best and J. B. Collip and Walter R. Campbell and A. Almon Fletcher},
  journal={Diabetes},
  year={1956},
  volume={5},
  pages={69 - 71}
}
Since the year 1889, when von Mering and Minkowski produced severe and fatal diabetes by total removal of the pancreas in dogs, many investigators have endeavoured to obtain some beneficial effect in diabetes mellitus, either by feeding pancreas, or by administration of pancreatic extracts. 
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