It is difficult to predict exactly the place Sir Frederick
Banting will hold in medical history, but it will be a very high place indeed, for a man whose name is inseparably associated with the cure or alleviation of some particular disease, or some specific advance in surgery, is never likely to be forgotten. Whenever diabetes and the insulin method is being discussed Banting's name will inevitably be recalled, as Jenner's is in connexion with small-pox, Lister's with antiseptic surgery, Simpson's with chloroform and Ross's with malaria. Insulin treatment is not infallible—few treatments are—but it is certain that tens of thousands of people are alive today who would be dead if Banting had not discovered insulin just twenty years ago. In him Canada has made her greatest contribution to medical science.
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