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weekendtr december 4 1993 p7 leonard thompson first person treated with insulin q who was the first person to successfully receive insulin once dr frederick banting fin ished experimenting on dogs a banting and his assis tant charles best first suc cessfully tried their new for mula insulin on a 14-year- old boy named leonard thompson the experiment took place in toronto in january 1922 but prior to that the two had experienced several failures it was expected that thomp son would die from diabetes but the insulin worked in this case thompson ended up taking insulin for the rest of his life banting and best began their experiments on dogs the previous year and were able to produce insulin from an extract taken from beef pancreas once their successes were made public several diabet ics came to toronto to receive help in 1923 banting and dr jjr macleod who over saw the experiments won the nobel prize banting shared his win nings with best while macleod shared his with dr james collip a biochemist who developed a technique to purify insulin q is there any record of the first nonnative indi an child born in what is now canada a according to writings by farley mowat on the vikings the first such child born here would probably have been a boy named fern hollydays greal food xc ski hot tub pool entertainment 86 fireplaces rr km 3 0a packa p 1 15 111 christmas 1 child free 310 1 ffttmt boxing day 2 kids free 310 iimwaom nftw ynts 335 feservafons betttodnewytera 18005673376 jan 79 140 to 175 7053252256 rr50ritaontl3vhs concord fireplaces inc hot savings last chance for installation before christmas on all instaflame inserts direct vent fireplaces iftnostaff pnflnvin i u hwy7 9057366808 346 miumay ave unit 10 concord monday saturday snbrri the child was born some time around the year 1003 or 1004 the parents were thorfinn karlsnefi a viking seaman and trader and his wife gudrid who accompa nied him on an expedition to what is now labrador and newfoundland when she was six months pregnant the colonists spent a long cold winter in this area and it was then that the child was born according to mowat the child was probably named for snorri thorbrandsson who was thorfinns closest friend eventually thorfinn and gudrid went to greenland where they spent time with erik the red and then returned to iceland trivia maikkearney randray