But with the death of the last principal in 1978, historical research could begin without impediment. Some relevant documents were ignored by scholars others were suppressed by the University of Toronto to avoid embarrassment to surviving researchers. But no comprehensive, accurate and detailed account of the course of events that led to so astonishing a leap forward in the treatment of disease has ever appeared - neither at Toronto nor anywhere else. For the first time, diabetic men and women, many of whom were until then doomed to an ineffectual starvation diet followed by coma and death within a year or two, were offered a treatment that restored them, sometimes in just a few weeks, to rosy-cheeked health. The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto 60 years ago ranks with the greatest moments in the history of medicine.
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