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The Skeptics Guide #912 - Dec 31 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Type One Diabetes - The First Injection of Insulin

Frederick Banting and Charles Best of Toronto, Canada injected the first patient with insulin a 14 year old boy with type one diabetes who would have died without the treatment. "You're not going to take somebody out of a diabetic coma with one injection of diabetes," he says. And wasn't it, wasn't it produced from like rabbit? Maybe. Horse pancreas is actually horse.

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