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ace-and-ranty · 15 days ago

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"Barron’s was a useful, not brilliant or trail-breaking study (...). The sole importance of Barron’s article in the history of medicine is that Fred Banting happened to read it."

Ohhhh that gave me a little bit of a thrill.

#FASCINATING #for context: Fred Banting was one of the people who isolated insulin for treating diabetes #so one fine day a completely ordinary article falls into his hands #nothing groundbreaking about it #just one interesting little article.#and it catches his eye at the right time and the snowball rolls on AND NOW WE HAVE INSULIN #the collective unpredictable impact humans have on each other makes me emotional.

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