Learning Diabetes From Its History

Abstract

In Advances in Diabetology, The 49^th Annual Post Graduate Course, a 'Special Lectures on History of Diabetes' was held. Dedicated researchers, Frederick Grant Banting, who discovered insulin, Priscilla White, who developed clinical practice in diabetes and pregnancy, Paul Langerhans, who identified the pancreatic islets, and Paul Kimmelstiel, who established the clinical entity of diabetic nephropathy, were introduced and discussed in the lectures.