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Book Sir Frederick Banting   Medical Scientist and Doctor Who Co Discovered Insulin   Canadian History for Kids   True Canadian Heroes

Download or read book Sir Frederick Banting Medical Scientist and Doctor Who Co Discovered Insulin Canadian History for Kids True Canadian Heroes written by Beaver and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's learn from the story of Sir Fredrick Banting, who was never satisfied with knowledge. It was Sir Fredrick who first mentioned about a bodily substance that can might be the cure for diabetes. He spent years looking for an answer until he, together with his lab partners, discovered insulin. Sir Fredrick's story is that of an unrelenting pursuit for knowledge. Read his story today.

Book Sir Fredrick Banting   Medical Scientist and Doctor Who Co Discovered Insulin Canadian History for Kids True Canadian Heroes

Download or read book Sir Fredrick Banting Medical Scientist and Doctor Who Co Discovered Insulin Canadian History for Kids True Canadian Heroes written by Professor Beaver and published by Professor Beaver. This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's learn from the story of Sir Fredrick Banting, who was never satisfied with knowledge. It was Sir Fredrick who first mentioned about a bodily substance that can might be the cure for diabetes. He spent years looking for an answer until he, together with his lab partners, discovered insulin. Sir Fredrick's story is that of an unrelenting pursuit for knowledge. Read his story today.

Book The Discovery of Insulin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Bliss
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2017-06-22
  • ISBN : 1487516746
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book The Discovery of Insulin written by Michael Bliss and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin was a wonder-drug with ability to bring patients back from the very brink of death, and it was no surprise that in 1923 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to its discoverers, the Canadian research team of Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod. In this engaging and award-winning account, historian Michael Bliss recounts the fascinating story behind the discovery of insulin – a story as much filled with fiery confrontation and intense competition as medical dedication and scientific genius. Originally published in 1982 and updated in 1996, The Discovery of Insulin has won the City of Toronto Book Award, the Jason Hannah Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, and the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

Book The Cambridge History of Medicine

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Medicine written by Roy Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-05 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.

Book What Disturbs Our Blood

Download or read book What Disturbs Our Blood written by James FitzGerald and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, unmined piece of Canadian history, an intense psychological drama, a mystery to be solved . . . and a hardwon escape from a family curse. Like his friends Banting and Best, Dr. John FitzGerald was a Canadian hero. He founded Connaught Labs, saved untold lives with his vaccines and transformed the idea of public health in Canada and the world. What so darkened his reputation that his memory has been all but erased? A sensitive, withdrawn boy is born into the gothic house of his long dead grandfather, a brilliant yet tormented pathologist of Irish blood and epic accomplishment whose memory has been mysteriously erased from public consciousness. As the boy watches his own father—also an eminent doctor—plunge into a suicidal psychosis, he intuits, as the psychiatrists do not, some unspeakable secret buried like a tumour deep in the multi-generational layers of the family unconscious. Growing into manhood, he knows in his bones that he must stalk an ancient curse before it stalks him. To set himself free, he must break the silence and put words to the page. His future lies in the past.

Book From Aspirin to Viagra

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vladimir Marko
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2020-07-06
  • ISBN : 3030442861
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book From Aspirin to Viagra written by Vladimir Marko and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aspirin to Viagra, insulin to penicillin, and vaccines to vitamin supplements, drugs have become part of our everyday lives. This staggering global industry wasn’t born overnight; advancements in pharmaceutical science have been happening for a long while, over the course of decades and even centuries. This book tells the history of ten prominent substances and how they came to be common household names. It shows how the creation of such influential drugs often began with the right person at the exactly right—or wrong!— time. The chapters tell the stories of geniuses and charlatans; scholars and amateurs; advances won through hard work or pure luck; and ultimately, the handful of resounding successes that revolutionized a global industry. Beyond the pioneers of the most famous drugs in our culture, the book analyzes how our perspective on medical treatment has shifted over the decades. Modern standards for testing and administering substances have created a new set of advantages, setbacks, and stigmas, all of which are discussed herein.

Book Sugar Shock

    Book Details:
  • Author : Connie Bennett
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2006-12-26
  • ISBN : 1101205652
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Sugar Shock written by Connie Bennett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect guide to getting healthy by kicking your sugar habit for good with 20 simple, sugar-free success strategies. There’s no sugarcoating it: succumbing to sweets too often could damage your health. But to what extent? Most readers already know that succumbing to sweets too often can lead to obesity and diabetes. What many don't know, however, is that too many "quickie carbs" can bring on a host of other maladies-such as "brain fog," fatigue, mood swings, heart disease, and even cancer-from which millions may be suffering because of their sugar or carbohydrate habits. In this engaging, jargon-free book, Connie Bennett and contributing author Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra bring you the shocking truth, backed by medical studies. With insights from thousands of physicians, nutritionists, researchers, and "sugar sufferers" worldwide, SUGAR SHOCK!™ will teach you how to kick the sugar habit for good. “Spills the beans on the shocking impact of simple carbohydrates on aging and quality of life—a double whammy for humanity.”—Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., host of The Dr. Oz Show

Book Fred and Marjorie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah Kerbel
  • Publisher : Owlkids
  • Release : 2021-08-15
  • ISBN : 9781771474115
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Fred and Marjorie written by Deborah Kerbel and published by Owlkids. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic novel that tells the true story of the life-saving discovery of insulin

Book A History of Medicine

Download or read book A History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Songs in the Key of Z

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  • Author : Irwin Chusid
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2000-04-01
  • ISBN : 156976493X
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Songs in the Key of Z written by Irwin Chusid and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy—and presents their strange life stories along with photographs, interviews, cartoons, and discographies. About the only things these self-taught artists have in common are an utter lack of conventional tunefulness and an overabundance of earnestness and passion. But, believe it or not, they're worth listening to, often outmatching all contenders for inventiveness and originality. A CD featuring songs by artists profiled in the book is also available.

Book The Memoirs of Mustapha Hussain

Download or read book The Memoirs of Mustapha Hussain written by Mustapha Hussain and published by Utusan Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Mustapha Hussain, from his coming of age in a Minangkabau Malay community in Perak to his part in the formation of the Young Malays Union.

Book Banting s Miracle

Download or read book Banting s Miracle written by Seale Harris and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frederick Banting

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Eaton Hume
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 145971122X
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Frederick Banting written by Stephen Eaton Hume and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Frederick Banting, a decorated war hero, developed insulin in 1920, he earned the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world.

Book The World s Worst Diabetes Mom

Download or read book The World s Worst Diabetes Mom written by Stacey Simms and published by Spark Publications. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacey Simms' parenting philosophy is "not perfect, but safe and happy." Does that make her the world's worst diabetes mom? Some people on social media thought so. But her stories and the lessons they impart show that diabetes laughs in the face of perfection. Raising a happy and healthy child with type 1 diabetes, as well as any siblings, requires flexibility, planning, and a great sense of humor above all else. It's a journey full of challenges, but you are not alone!

Book The Banting Enigma

Download or read book The Banting Enigma written by William R. Callahan and published by St. John's, NL : Flanker Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1941. Wartime Newfoundland. Keeping vigil on the easternmost point of North America, and providing a strategic haven to battle-ready U.S. troops during World War II, the island colony of Newfoundland was an essential contributor to the Allied cause. And, when the war was at its fiercest, this Atlantic sentinel would receive devastating body blows from a hidden, elusive enemy. Two key players bore witness to the ensuing drama. Sir Frederick Banting: soldier, scientist, Nobel Prize winner. The enigmatic co-discoverer of insulin and his views on biological warfare would give rise to heated and long-lived controversy. Little did Major Banting know, word of his actions had reached the ears of the Führer himself, who determined the Canadian soldier-scientist would not live to see his goal of using biological weapons against Germany fulfilled. Karl Otto Stroesser: saboteur, spy, murderer. Receiving orders directly from the upper echelons of Adolf Hitler's Abwehr syndicate, he is the instrument of Nazi Germany's private war waged upon Newfoundland. It is through the actions of this cunning, relentless killer that the island colony would witness some of the greatest tragedies ever to unfold in its history. Steeped in political intrigue, power struggles, and espionage, The Banting Enigma looks behind the scenes at Newfoundland's role in World War II--and its deadly repercussions.

Book Brain Storming

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles H. Clark
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2011-03-10
  • ISBN : 9781438270999
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Brain Storming written by Charles H. Clark and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I can think of no finer way to enrich a person's life than to stimulate him to a greater use of his creative talents. The ability to be creative, in which the techniques of "brain-storming" play such an important part, is largely a state of mind. It is a state of mind that we all can cultivate. As a business manager, I have been especially interested in stimulating ideas for two reasons: to benefit the business itself and to help the people who work in that business. In our organization we have had quite a bit of experience with this subject. And I can say that these techniques not only work on specific problems. They also help to broaden a person's outlook on life, to open his whole personality to the "idea concept" and to encourage a constant, fresh eagerness about all the problems of daily living. Although my comments are being made from a businessman's point of view, I think it is evident that they apply quite generally to all people. Any company or organization that makes and sells products in competition will prosper only as it develops new ideas. This is basic to growth and improvement. To fulfill this objective, the organization must have creative people on all its important areas, such as engineering, manufacturing, sales, and personnel. And it must have good management in seeing that the best results are obtained from those creative people in all those areas. Yet, whether one's business is large or small, there are some dilemmas in which the manager finds himself. For instance, a very small business, desiring to grow, may find the problem of developing new ideas a difficult and expensive one. Therefore, the need to avoid the failure of working on the wrong idea is vital. The manager of a large organization is also in a difficult spot. To him, spending money on a poor idea is not so serious because his resources are larger. However, because of this, there is less appreciation of the cost of development. Consequently the controls that he must employ can create an atmosphere that hampers idea men and their productiveness. Thus there are the dual problems of creativity and good management. Creative ability is most frequently the opposite of good judgment. Creative ability includes the tendency to experiment with novel ideas that might be unsound. It includes a good deal of the gambler's spirit where the individual "sticks his neck out" and tries something new, perhaps even "wild" or "crazy." Therefore, by its very nature, creative ability is on the opposite end of the scale from good judgment. In other words, if we were to draw a line to represent the various degrees of creative ability and sound judgment, we would put great creativity at one end and sound judgment at the other. The better manager, when rated along this line, would be much closer to the good judgment end than to the creativity end. So we immediately see that a "good manager" may automatically constitute a barrier to an atmosphere that fosters creativity. Consequently, this is a real challenge to business leaders: how to combine a flow of creative new ideas with sound evaluation. Business, just as art, needs a climate of open-mindedness, and should not be wary of non-conformists who continually pose ideas that run contrary to our orthodox thinking.

Book Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries

Download or read book Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries written by Joanna F. Fountain and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides headings for topics, literary and organizational forms, and names of individuals, corporate bodies, places, works, and so on, that might be needed to catalog a general collection used at least in part by children and readers or viewers interested in popular topics.