Breakthrough : Banting, Best, and the race to save millions of diabetics

Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1981 -- Fifth Avenue, New York City, April 1919 -- The breakfast room of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919 -- The library of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919 -- New York City, April 1919, later that afternoon -- Toronto, Canada, and Cambrai, France, 1917-1918 -- War, peace, and politics, 1914-1918 -- Glen Falls, New York, April 1920 -- The idea of the Physiatric Institute, May 1920 -- Banting's house in London, Ontario, Octo ber 30-31, 1920 -- Toronto or bust, October 1920 to April 1921 -- Presidential politics, 1916 and 1920 -- The Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, 1921 -- The University of Toronto, summer 1921 -- Washington, D.C., and Bolton, New York, March to September 1921 -- The Washington Conference, November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922 -- The Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, November 1921 -- The University of Toronto, September to December 1921 -- The Crossroads of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1919-1921 -- The American Physiological Socity Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, December 28-30, 1921.;(Cont.) Success and failure, the University of Toronto, January, 1922 -- Failure and success, the University of Toronto, February to April 1922 -- Honeymoon cottage, Hamilton, Bermuda, January to July 1922 -- Parents, partners, and pancreases, Indianapolis and Toronto, April to August 1922 -- Fame and famine, Summer 1922 -- Four trunks, Washington, D.C., August 1922 -- Escape from Morristown, August 1922 -- The transformation begins, Toronto, August to November 1922 -- Crossing the line aboard the SS Pan America, August to September 1922 -- Fate, fortune, and forgetting, September to December 1922 -- The Nobel Prize and beyond -- The emergence of Elizabeth Gossett.;Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others, "Breakthrough" relives the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin. Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1981 -- Fifth Avenue, New York City, April 1919 -- The breakfast room of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919 -- The library of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919 -- New York City, April 1919, later that afternoon -- Toronto, Canada, and Cambrai, France, 1917-1918 -- War, peace, and politics, 1914-1918 -- Glen Falls, New York, April 1920 -- The idea of the Physiatric Institute, May 1920 -- Banting's house in London, Ontario, Octo ber 30-31, 1920 -- Toronto or bust, October 1920 to April 1921 -- Presidential politics, 1916 and 1920 -- The Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, 1921 -- The University of Toronto, summer 1921 -- Washington, D.C., and Bolton, New York, March to September 1921 -- The Washington Conference, November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922 -- The Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, November 1921 -- The University of Toronto, September to December 1921 -- The Crossroads of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1919-1921 -- The American Physiological Socity Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, December 28-30, 1921. (Cont.) Success and failure, the University of Toronto, January, 1922 -- Failure and success, the University of Toronto, February to April 1922 -- Honeymoon cottage, Hamilton, Bermuda, January to July 1922 -- Parents, partners, and pancreases, Indianapolis and Toronto, April to August 1922 -- Fame and famine, Summer 1922 -- Four trunks, Washington, D.C., August 1922 -- Escape from Morristown, August 1922 -- The transformation begins, Toronto, August to November 1922 -- Crossing the line aboard the SS Pan America, August to September 1922 -- Fate, fortune, and forgetting, September to December 1922 -- The Nobel Prize and beyond -- The emergence of Elizabeth Gossett. It is 1919, and Elizabeth Hughes, the 11-year-old daughter of America's most distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment—starvation—whittles her down to 45 pounds of skin and bones. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to identify and purify insulin from animal pancreases—a miracle soon marred by scientific jealousy, intense business competition, and fist fights. In a race against time and a ravaging disease, Elizabeth becomes one of the first diabetics to receive insulin injections—all while its discoverers and a little-known pharmaceutical company struggle to make it available to the rest of the world. Relive the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin as it has never before been told, written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly, among many others.