Thirty-six years ago, researchers Frederick Banting and Best, of Toronto, able to isolate insulin from the pancreas and apply it to the treatment of diabetes, it is current, natural, fast-acting insulin; but this property of being fast action is that their management is laborious, requiring many injections a day and spends too much insulin, sowing distrust in some patients for accidents resulting. Then we have to solve the first problem insulinisation: Delaying the action of insulin, for which purpose it is associated to vasoconstrictors such as pituitary hormones and adrenaline, bringing its share to eight hours is prolonged, but endocrinologist that time as Umber, not supported as insulin reservoir and removed from therapeutic use.

Hace aún menos de un siglo,los médicos no sabrán que  causaba la diabetes y por lo tanto no habia tratamiento para esta enfermedad. El paciente promedio de la que  hoy conocemos como Diabetes mellitus de tipo 1,no solía vivir más de algunas semanas o meses. El  descubrimiento de la insulina en el afio 1921por dos jóvenes canadienses,Frederick Banting yCharles Best ha sido un hito con un significado clfnico 1,terapéutico muy dificil de igualar en la historia de la medicina. 

45 páginas, 6 láminas. | Elaborado en cooperación con el Ministerio de Fomento, Instituto Geológico del Perú, bajo el auspicio del Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation Department of State (U.S.)