JDRF UK - #OnThisDay, 11th January in 1922 Leonard Thompson aged 14, became the first person in the world to receive an insulin shot as treatment for #type1diabetes. The pioneering 'fab four'
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14 year old Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to receive insulin in 1922 at Toronto, for Type 1 diabetes, a highly life threatening disease then. He would recover and live till
University of Toronto on X: "In 1922, Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old Toronto boy who was drifting in & out of consciousness at Toronto General Hospital, became the first person to receive the
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