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Diabetes

... Let’s put a few facts right! Banting and Best did not discover insulin! They merely extracted it from de-pancreanised dogs. This was completely unnecessary, because you do not have to torture dogs to obtain insulin as it can be obtained from pigs and cattle at the slaughterhouse. Of course those with vested interests who wish to protect and/or carry on with the fraud of vivisection claim that they had to try it out on dogs first to see if it worked. Sounds logical until you realise that the insulin they extracted was so toxic that it killed the first people who took it!

It was of course Collip a bio chemist who purified it with a non animal method afterwards. It was  already known that there was a substance lacking in the pancreas that was suspected of causing diabetes hundreds of years before Banting and Best. It was actually Thomas Cawley in 1788 who noted the association between diabetes and a damaged pancreas when he investigated the corpse of a hanged man. And all the animal  methods employed in the 18th century got us nowhere and in fact completely mislead researchers. The name insulin was actually coined by Sir Sharpey Schafer years before the experiments on dogs took place. All the useful work was clinical (without animals) and was employed by people like William Beaumont who observed a gastric fistula (an inoperable opening in the stomach) in a young soldier called Thomas St. Martin. Langerhans had discovered the cells that secrete insulin and were later given the name ‘The Islets of Langerhans‘. He did this with the aid of a microscope not live

animals. Mathew Dobson also made his contribution by discovering the urine of diabetics had a higher sugar level and that glucose was apparently being lost in nutrition. In 1920 Moses Barron conducted an autopsy on a man who had suffered from stones in the pancreas and diabetes. Barron was then able to assert that the islets of Langerhans were involved in the cause of diabetes. Barron a vivisector himself admitted:

 

“I had the good fortune to encounter accidentally such a case while doing routine autopsies. The lesion by it’s very nature, being long standing, presents gradually progressive changes in the parenchyma that could not be obtained in no other way, not even by animal experimentation.

 

Despite insulin injections, some patients continue to have dangerous and potentially fatal