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1922 Frederick Banting and Charles Best went to a hospital ward with diabetic children, most of them comatose and dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. The scientists went from bed-to-bed and injected the children with the new purified extract - insulin. As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first child injected began to awaken. Then one by one, all the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room of death and gloom, became a place of joy and hope.
As I'm writing this blog, I heard that British Physicist Stephen Hawking has passed away. He was a brilliant theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe. He once wrote that he had a motor neurone disease for practically all his adult life but said that it had not stopped him having an attractive family and being successful in his work. "It shows," he said "that one need not lose hope." What an inspiration!
Stephen was born on the date of Galileo's death and died on the date of Albert Einstein's birth.
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| Rest in Peace Stephen Hawking |
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| Happy Pi Day |
