who was first diagnosed with diabetes and how did they find out that they had diabetes?who found diabetes?
who found diabetes? and also who was the first person who had diabetes? and what year were they diagnosed with diabetes? did they live or die? what treaments did they person who found it give them?
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Some people suspect Alexander the Great had Type I diabetes; however, even he is unlikely to have been the first. Supposedly one of his teachers determined that his urine was…prepare yourself for grossness here… sweet. Alexander died of malaria or some other tropical fever, which he may have been more susceptible to due to the diabetes.
I don’t know about Alexeverwander’s story about Alexander the Great, but it could be true, because I have read that healers of that day did indeed taste the urine for sweetness and that they knew that sweet urine was a sign of illness in the body. I don’t think they called it diabetes then, but they knew that to be a symptom of illness.
We know today…although not by tasting (smile)…that when the body has too much sugar in it, it tries to eliminate it in anyway possible…especially the urine…but also the breath and perspiration.
The word diabetes was coined by Aretaeus (81–133 CE) of Cappadocia. The word is taken from Greek diabaínein, and literally means “passing through”, or “siphon”, a reference to one of diabetes’ major symptoms of excessive urine discharge. The word became “diabetes” from the English adoption of the medieval Latin diabetes. In 1675 Thomas Willis added mellitus to the name (Greek mel, “honey”, sense “honey sweet”) when he noted that a diabetic’s urine and blood has a sweet taste (first noticed by ancient Natives). In 1776 it was confirmed the sweet taste was because of an excess of sugar in the urine and blood. Although diabetes has been recognized since antiquity, and treatments were known since the Middle Ages, the elucidation of the pathogenesis of diabetes occurred mainly in the 20th century.
The discovery of the role of the pancreas in diabetes is generally credited to Joseph von Mering and Oskar Minkowski, two European researchers who in 1889 found that when they completely removed the pancreas of dogs, the dogs developed all the signs and symptoms of diabetes and died shortly afterward. In 1910, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer of Edinburgh in Scotland suggested that diabetics were deficient in a single chemical that was normally produced by the pancreas — he proposed calling this substance insulin.
Until 23rd June, 1921, when insulin was first discovered and made clinically available, a clinical diagnosis of what is now called type 1 diabetes was an invariable death sentence.