Seeing Medical Data in New Ways

A blood sugar chart spanning a year by Doug Kantner

History of Diabetes

Diabetes was known in Ancient Egypt, but only much more recently did we have really effective means for making it a livable disease.

The Diabetes Museum in Munich has a lot of examples of experimental syringes, insulin pumps, and information on the history of diabetes and its diagnosis and treatment.

Through them I also discovered the Diabetes Flame of Hope, eternally burning in Canada until a cure is found.

And here is the "Starvation Diet" for diabetics from 1915, found on the Smithsonian Institute website: