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Leonard Thompson (17 July 1908 – 20 April 1935) was the first person to have received an injection of insulin as a treatment for type 1 diabetes .
On Jan. 11, 1922, a 14-year-old boy hovered between life and death. His name was Leonard Thompson and he was suffering the end stages of diabetes mellitus.
On January 11, 1922, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive an insulin injection as a treatment for diabetes. Prior to that, people with type 1 diabetes did not survive for more than a few weeks or months with the disease.
Dec 1, 2020 · He survived diabetes for an additional 3 years until contracting broncho-pneumonia from an influenza (exacerbated by severe acidosis) and dying from a coma; 1 even though, his death was stipulated as a result of a motorcycle accident. Leonard Thompson prematurely died at the age of 27 on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1935.
May 3, 2022 · In January 1922, Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy dying from type 1 diabetes, became the first person to receive an injection of insulin. Within 24 hours, Leonard’s dangerously high blood sugar levels dropped, but he developed an abscess at the site of the injection and still had high levels of ketones.
Jan 18, 2021 · Fourteen-year-old Leonard Thompson became the first human with type 1 diabetes to receive an insulin injection on 11 January 1922. At the time, Leonard was 5’11”, weighed just 29kgs and had been drifting in and out of a diabetic coma at Toronto General Hospital.
Feb 9, 2022 · Abstract. Before the discovery of insulin and the critical role of the pancreas vis-à-vis diabetes mellitus pathophysiology, childhood diabetes or what we now call type 1 or autoimmune diabetes mellitus was almost universally fatal.
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