Diabetes History Calendar
| Time | Event |
| 1500 BC | Egyptian Ebers Papyrus first describes diabetes (see the album) |
| 400 BC | Susruta records diabetes symptoms and classified the types of diabetes. Charaka then refined this work in 6AD. |
| 10 AD | Celsus developed a clinical description of diabetes |
| 20 AD | Aretaeus coins the term diabetes. |
| 1869 | Langerhans described clusters of cells (islets) looked like lymph nodes in the pancreas. |
| 1889 | Von Mering and Minkowski observed that diabetes could happen when an animal's pancreas is removed. |
| 1922 | Banting and Best ( professor and his student ) obtained and purified islets of Langerhans from an animal pancreas, injected its material (insulin) into a diabetic animal, and find a fall in blood sugar level.They won Nobel prize for this discovery . |