In-depth History of Diabetes

Early Origins of Diabetes:

The earliest mention of diabetes comes in the form of a papyrus scroll recorded by physician Hesy-Ra back in 1552 BC. In it, he mentions frequent urination as a symptom of a new disease.

Discovery of Other Symptoms & Type 1 Diabetes

Moving down the centuries to 980 AD, there is a record of a Persian healer, Avicenna who gave a detailed account of diabetes mellitus, in which he described symptoms like frequent urination, and decline of sexual functions.

Role of the Pancreas

Then in 1889, Joseph von Mering & Oskar Minkowski identified the role of the pancreas in diabetes. They appear to have done this through a rather brutal process of elimination: they found that when the pancreas was removed from healthy dogs, they developed the symptoms of diabetes.

Use of Insulin as Medication

In 1920, taking Mering and Minkowski’s discovery forward, two scientists, Sir Fredrick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best used an extract from the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas to successfully reverse induced diabetes in dogs—a major relief for canines.

Categorizing Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

In 1936, Sir Harold Percival Himsworth published a treatise in which type 1 and type 2 were identified as different forms of the same disease. It is the first recorded instance of its kind.

Reversing Diabetes:

Treatment of diabetes has come a long way. Every day we learn more about diabetes and also the ways to treat it. Pioneers like Dr. Neal Barnard, Gabriel Cousenz, Joel Fuhrman, and in India, FFD’s very own, Dr. Pramod Tripathi evolved protocols that enabled diabetics, many of them under heavy medication and suffering from other diabetes-related complications, to reverse their condition naturally. 

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