Argument and the first study of diabetes
Diabetes has been known for thousands of years BC. In manuscripts written by George Ebers in Egypt around 1550 BC- later known as the Ebers Papyrus, revealing some of the treatment of a disease with symptoms of frequent urination are gived information of diabetes.
Similarly, in the book Indian Ayurvedic 600 BC this disease has been known. It is said that this disease can be malignant and ends with the death of patients in a short time. Two thousand years ago Aretaeus has given the presence of a disease characterized by urinating a lot and considered as a mysterious disease and diabetes to name the disease diabere meaning of the word siphon or tube to drain fluid from one place to another. He found it so malignant disease, so patients as if crushed and discharged through the urine.
Scholars of China and India in the 3rd century till 6 also find this disease, and said that the urine of patients was sweet. Willis in 1674 described the urine was like flooded by honey and sugar. Since the disease was coupled with the word mellitus, which means honey. Ibnu Sina was first described the diabetic gangrene in 1000.
In von Mehring and Minkowski get symptoms of diabetes in dogs are taken pancreasnya. Finally in 1921 the world was shocked by the discovery of insulin by a young surgeon Frederick Banting and his assistant who was a student of Charles Herbert Best in Toronto. In 1954-1956 found the first generation sulfonylurea type tablets that can increase insulin production. Since it is found drugs such as second- and third-generation sulfonylureas and other groups such as alpha-glucosidase inhibitor and biguanide.
