AS time GOES BY

History has it that the very first reference to what we now know as diabetes was made more than 3500 years ago. But it wasn’t until just over a century ago, in the early 1900s, that medical scientists began to make significant discoveries and breakthroughs that would lead to the diabetes knowledge, advocacy and treatments we take for granted today. Here’s how it all played out.

1910

After researchers discovered in the late 1880s that animals develop symptoms of diabetes if