First Use of Insulin to treat diabetes on human patient in 1922

 

On 11 January 1922, First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.

On 11 January 1922, Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy with diabetes, who lay dying at the Toronto General Hospital, was given the first injection of insulin. However, the extract was so impure that Thompson suffered a severe allergic reaction, and further injections were cancelled.

Over the next 12 days, James Collip worked day and night to improve the ox-pancreas extract, and a second dose was injected on the 23 January. This was completely successful, not only in having no obvious side-effects, but in completely eliminating the glycosuria sign of diabetes.

Conquest of Mecca in 630

 

 

On 11 January 630, Conquest of Mecca, The prophet Muhammad and his followers conquered the city, Quraysh surrendered.

The Conquest of Mecca, was the capture of the town of Mecca by Muslims led by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in December 629 or January 630 AD. The conquest marked the end of the wars between the followers of prophet Muhammad and the Quraysh tribe.

Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar's Birth Anniversary

 

Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, born on 11 January 1898, was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He was the first Marathi author to win the prestigious Jnanpith Award.