Marking a century of life-saving discoveries in diabetes care

Patrick Kinghan, a Western public history student, is among the millions of people with diabetes who are alive because of Dr. Frederick Banting and researchers who followed him. Kinghan, who led tours through a museum that was Banting's medical office and home, holds two vials of insulin. (Submitted photo) Patrick Kinghan recalls the first time he stepped into Dr. Frederick Banting's spartan bedroom. There was the daisy-splashed wallpaper; the simple iron bed and, on the night-table beside it, the scrawled 25-word hypothesis that would go on to save millions of lives. Kinghan, a Western University public history student who interned at Banting House National Historical Site in London, Ont. last summer, was diagnosed with diabetes when he was 17 years old, nine years after his older brother received the same diagnosis. "Being in that room, that physical space, is really powerful.