Print of Drs. Frederick Banting and Charles Best, and Dog 408.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Acquired from the Academy of Medicine.
Dates
1921
circa 1921
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-1-3 Box C
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Banting House NHSC
Reference Comments
Prev. # 71.5.50
Research Facts
Banting and Best used a number of dogs in the process of creating a treatment for diabetes; dogs were treated so that they could not produced trypsin, and then insulin was extracted. The dog pictured here is number 408.