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Extra History: Season 123

The Discovery of Insulin 2021

  • 2021-11-11T16:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 10m
  • 20m (2 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Animation, Documentary, History
History is the best novel you've ever read. Extra History® brings viewers the betrayals and blood feuds, the heroic sacrifices and impossible triumphs, the daily struggles and tiny joys, that together have created the world we know today.

2 episodes

Season Premiere

2021-11-11T16:00:00Z

123x01 The Discovery of Insulin - The Miracle

Season Premiere

123x01 The Discovery of Insulin - The Miracle

  • 2021-11-11T16:00:00Z10m

Jan 19th 1922, University of Toronto. Day and night for 11 days James Collip has been in the lab preparing sample after sample of a hormone taken from beef pancreas. His team hopes this will save thousands of children a year but in truth, it's one specific child Collip is trying to save, and it's a race for the cure.

Follow John James Rikard Macleod, Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and James Collip in the discovery of insulin, a miracle cure, and stay tuned for part 2!

May 3rd, 1922. Washington, D.C. Dr. James Macleod stands before the annual meeting of the Association of Physicians, presenting a paper that makes public the findings of their study on insulin. Surely this is a win for the research team responsible? Maybe not, as Banting seems to have a different view of the situation.

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