The gift of Dr. Minot

Duration: 0:20:20

Genre: Biographical (Nonfiction) | Educational | Historical | Medical (Nonfiction)

Year Published: 1966

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television series episode, "The Gift of Dr. Minot" (season 3, episode 20), which originally aired on April 12th, 1955 on ABC-TV. This film re-enacts the research of Boston physician and Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Minot, who disregarded his own diabetic condition to develop a cure for pernicious anemia in 1922. Concurrently, Canadian Dr. Frederick Banting (also a Nobel Prize winner) perfected insulin as a cure for diabetes, enabling Minot to conclude his experiment., Re-enacts the research of Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Minot who disregarded his own diabetic condition to develop a cure for pernicious anemia in 1922. Shows Dr. Banting of Canada perfecting insulin as a cure for diabetes, enabling Minot to conclude his experiment.

Complete Record: , Re-enacts the research of Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Minot who disregarded his own diabetic condition to develop a cure for pernicious anemia in 1922. Shows Dr. Banting of Canada perfecting insulin as a cure for diabetes, enabling Minot to conclude his experiment.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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