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In addition to the core collection, the following are available:

  • Banting's scrapbooks - page images of three scrapbooks, compiled by FG Banting, documenting his career and personal life. Selected items in the scrapbooks have also been individually described and included in the core collection. These items are listed on each scrapbook page.
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New Canadian medical discovery
Treatment of diabetes
The story of insulin
Letter to Sir Henry Dale 22/02/1954
C. H. Best: a report of the discovery and development of the knowledge of the properties of insulin
Letter to H.H. Best 10/05/1922
The physiology of insulin and its source in the animal body: Nobel lecture delivered at Stockholm on May 26th 1925
James Bertram Collip 1892-1965
Letter to Dr. J. G. Fitzgerald 5/07/1923
Have they robbed diabetes of its terror?
Medical men gather to discuss recent discovery
Have they robbed diabetes of its terrors?
Toronto doctors on track of diabetes cure
Research work gives results
New remedy for diabetes
Biologists acclaim victor over diabetes
Collip claims the credit
Banting and Best made first step towards insulin
Four men will share in the Nobel Prize
Letter to Dr. Collip 30/06/1925
Letter to Mr. Clowes  regarding U.S. patent for insulin 22/08/1922
Diabetes and insulin: Nobel lecture delivered at Stockholm on September 15th, 1925
F. G. Banting: account of the discovery of insulin