Chapter
Section One: Diabetes mellitus history
A historical journey of diabetes mellitus
Ancient physicians of India
The first and second centuries AD
Areteus of Capadocia (81-138 AD)
Chang Chung Ching (150-219 AD)
Byzantine writers (4th to 9th century AD)
Stephanus Alexandriensis (550 AD-622 AD)
Alexander Traillianus (525-605 AD)
Paulus Aegineta (625-690 AD)
Theophilus Protospatharius
Golden ages of Islamic era: 9th to 12th centuries
Moses Maimonides (1138-1204)
Renaissance era and the pancreas (1300/1400-1600 AD)
Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576)
Progress in the 17th and 18th centuries
Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)
Thomas Willis (1621-1675)
Johann Conrada Brunner (1653-1727)
Matthew Dobson (1732-1784)
Matthew Baillie (1761-1823)
Progress in the 19th century
John Elliotson (1791-1868)
Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
William Prout (1785-1850)
Richard Bright (1789-1858)
Apollinaire Bouchardat (1806-1886)
Étienne Lancereaux (1829-1910)
Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819-1885)
Adolf Kussmaul (1822-1902)
Bernard Naunyn (1840-1914)
Paul Langerhans (1847-1888)
Edouard Laguesse (1861-1927)
Close of the 19th century: Psychological factors
Oscar Minkowski (1858-1931) and Joseph Freiherr von Mering (1849-1908)
Refulgant diabetes research in the 20th century
Early 20th century progress: 1900-1905
Early 20th century progress: 1906-1910
Early 20th century progress: 1911-1920
Frederick Madison Allen (1879-1964)
Elliott Proctor Joslin (1869-1962)
Israel Kleiner (1885-1966)
Nicolae Constantine Paulescu (1869-1931)
Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941)
Section Two: Acknowledgments
About the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine (WMED), Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel
Service and academic activities
International collaborations
About the book series “Public health: Practices, methods and policies”
Diabetes Mellitus: A Medical History Journey
( Public Health: Practices, Methods and Policies (Series Editor: Joav Merrick, Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel) )
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