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- Education and Early Career
- First World War
- General Practice
- Discovery of Insulin
- Nobel Prize and Other Honours
- Later Research
- The Personality
- Amateur Painter
- Legacy
Frederick Banting was the youngest of six children. His parents were William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant. His father’s extended family was of British descent and Methodist faith. They were hard-working, straight-laced and prosperous farmers. The family lived in the Alliston area, about 60 km north of Toronto, Ontario. Banting enjoyed a norm...
Frederick Banting worked in military hospitals in England. This work sparked his interest in surgery and research. In the summer of 1918, he was sent to France as a battalion medical officer. He saw heavy action in the last great battles of the war. His posting in France ended when he was wounded by shrapnel at Cambraiin September. Captain Banting ...
Frederick Banting took a year of surgical training at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. However, he could not obtain a staff position at a Toronto hospital. He decided to establish a general practice of medicine and surgery. He opened this practice in London, Ontario, in July 1920. Discouraged by its slow growth, he started working part-time at...
Banting and Best’s experiments in the summer and autumn of 1921 were crudely conducted. They did not prove Banting’s idea, which was physiologically unsound. Banting had left London and risked all of his meagre assets on the research in Toronto. However, he and Best did achieve favourable enough results treating some symptoms in diabetic dogs. Base...
Insulin was immediately and highly effective. While not a cure for diabetes mellitus, it was a powerful lifesaving therapy. Frederick Banting was hailed as the main discoverer of insulin. This is because his idea had launched the research, and he was a leader in the early use of insulin. He and his supporters also campaigned to discredit his senior...
Frederick Banting became a popular hero and the most famous Canadian of the 1920s. He was widely expected to conquer more diseases. These expectations weighed heavily on the deeply insecure, poorly trained researcher. He was desperate to prove that his insulin adventurewas no fluke. In the 1920s, his partnership with Best having ended, Banting turn...
Frederick Banting was shrewd, with an intense sense of integrity and duty. However, he had little training or experience as a scientist. He also did not deal well with the intense celebrity of his “discoverer of insulin” status. He had been almost broken by the pressures of the insulin research. Several times, he told friends that he was considerin...
Frederick Banting did, though, find contentment in painting. As a member of Toronto’s Arts and Letters Club, he came to know most members of Canada’s Group of Seven school of landscape artists. He adopted their techniques and their intense sense of Canadian nationalism. He also adopted their genteel, bohemian approach to life. (This way of life inc...
During and after his lifetime, Frederick Banting remained one of the world’s most famous Canadians. The very large international diabetes community expressed its gratitude for insulin with countless tributes to Banting. These include prizes, lectures, medals and other honours named after him. Canadian schools and a crater on the moon bear his name....
A collection of Banting's paintings was acquired by and donated to the Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University in 1928. Jackson and Banting also made painting expeditions to Great Slave Lake , Walsh Lake ( Northwest Territories ), Georgian Bay , French River and the Sudbury District .
In 2 decades, Fred produced hundreds of sketches and oil paintings. The exact number is not known but an exhibit of his work held at Hart House, University of Toronto, in 1943, included 241 items; mostly paintings on birch panels (8.5” x 10.5”) but some larger works on canvas (21” x 36”).
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Sir Frederick Banting. In 1925, fame rested heavily on the shoulders of Sir Frederick Banting, whose name had become closely associated with the discovery of insulin 3 years earlier. A reticent man, Banting found public speaking difficult and the hounding of the press unbearable. He found relief from the rigours of professional life through his ...
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Nov 22, 2018 · The Canadian doctor who won the Nobel prize for his role in discovering insulin was an accomplished artist as well as a remarkable scientist. Frederick Banting’s 1925 painting of the lab where ...
