Puppy Love

Introduction

Animals Helping Animals Even as recently as 100 years ago, everyone with Diabetes Mellitus died of starvation within a few weeks or months. It was a horrible disease and there was nothing anyone could do. But then, in 1920 at the University of Toronto, a young Canadian physician named Frederick Banting and a graduate student named Charles Best discovered that dogs could also get diabetes when their bodies stopped making its own insulin. So they developed a method to give extra insulin to the dogs. Because of their discovery, diabetic people and animals don't have to die of the disease. Instead, they can take insulin shots every day so that their bodies get the insulin they need to process food properly.