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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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Experiments on the mechanism of action of insulin
Effect of insulin (pancreatic extract) on the sugar consumption of the isolated surviving rabbit heart
Possible sources of insulin
Reminiscences of the researches which led to the discovery of insulin
The effect of pancreatic extract (insulin) on normal rabbits
Behaviour of depancreatized dogs kept alive with insulin
Clinical observations with insulin
The discovery of insulin
Insulin: Information for physicians regarding free distribution of insulin in suitable cases of diabetes
Please save my son!
Fiftieth anniversary of insulin
No. 1 scientist
Observations on the resting metabolism of children and adults in Switzerland
The problem of broadening the medical course
The diagnosis of acidosis: a review and criticism of the methods at present in use