History Of Diabetes
Diabetes, or more specifically diabetes mellitus, is a disease that is known today as diabetes. It is thought that the Ebers Papyrus (c. Along with Avicenna, other doctors from the Islamic world in the Middle Ages also wrote about diabetes. In old bills, diabetes was often called a disease of the kidneys. Thomas Willis suggested in 1674 that diabetes might also be a blood disease. Joseph von Mering and Oskar Minkowski are usually given credit for figuring out in 1889 that the pancreas plays a role in causing diabetes mellitus. Paul Langerhans, in 1869, called the islet cells of the pancreas "little piles of cells." In 1893, Édouard Laguesse said that the islet cells can also help control digestion. Islets of Langerhans is the name given to these cells after the person who first found them. At the beginning of the 20th century, doctors thought that the islets released a substance called "insulin" that breaks down carbs. Click to order Diabetes Freedom now from the