Who discovered Diabetes? The real answer is, there is no individual, whose name we know, that can be credited with first discovering diabetes. With any degree of certainty, we do not even know when was diabetes discovered. Here is some of the history of diabetes that we do know. What we do know is, diabetes has been around for a long time, real long. There is evidence that the Egyptians knew about diabetes in 1500B.C. There are other reports that the earliest reference to the condition comes from an Indian Physician by the name of Sushruta in the 6th century. So it could be argued that he discovered diabetes, but there is no documented proof. In addition, there are those who say that diabetes was known in the ancient civilizations of India, Greece, Egypt, Rome and China. There is one thing that all these people have in common, the sweetness of the urine. Now this suggests that there was somebody who was actually “tasting” the urine. I don’t know that I would be that interested in being the person whose name would be synonymous with the question, who discovered diabetes.
History Of Diabetes
We don’t know exactly what the Egyptians new about the disease, but we know that Sushruta attributed the condition to a sedentary lifestyle and excess weight. Pretty much the same factors as today, at least as respects what we know as type 2 diabetes. By the 1st century, the Greek, Aretaeus, gave the disease the name we know it as, diabetes. Diabetes is derived from the Greek word meaning “siphon”. The reasoning was because people with the disease “siphoned off” fluids. He observed that fluids did not remain in the body. It appeared that fluids passed right through the body. He also recognized that life only lasted a short time. He observed that urination was painful and that it seemed no part of the fluid was retained by the body. In fact, he thought the flesh was being consumed and liquefied and passed out via the urine. He also had, as did others before and after him, real confusion over a possible cure or treatment. This seemed to be a common theme as some of the early researchers believed that the flesh and bones melted down and liquefied and passed out through the urine. This was probably due to the fact the diabetics would lose much weight and urinate so frequently.
Treatment Of Diabetes
It would be another 13 centuries before the first written English reference to the disease using the name diabetes would be seen. It would be another 250 years before a doctor by the name of Thomas Willis used the term “diabetes mellitus”. It seems the ancient knowledge of sweetness of the urine was the cause of this since “mellitus” is the Latin word for “honey”. There have been many theories attached to the sweetness of urine over the years. One such theory was that the sweetness was caused by sugar. Another common theme in earlier times was that the disease was basically a death sentence. But testing continued and further progress was made, albeit slowly. Testing done in the19th century by Dr. J.V. Mering and Dr. Oskar Minkowski shows they could cause diabetes in animals by removing the pancreas. But it wasn’t until 1922 that a protein extracted from the pancreas called insulin was discovered. It was determined that this insulin helped with controlling diabetes and this discovery changed the course of treatment for diabetes.
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