They Sold a Lifesaving Medicine for Just $1 💉 #Shorts #LessonToday
→ Swipe for past videos
Three takeaways
A lifesaving medicine was sold for $1.
In January 1922, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson lay close to death from diabetes at Toronto General Hospital, weighing only 65 pounds.
On January 23, 1922, he received a more purified pancreatic extract made by Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip and John Macleod's team at the University of Toronto.