S. K Sinha

There is in this slim treatise one message given in 1921, exactly one hundred years ago, which if followed may well have limited today's pandemic of diabetes. The aphorisms, selected by the author, an ex-Joslin Fellow, are from the writings of Elliott Proctor Joslin, the founder of the Joslin Diabetes Centre in Boston and one of the greatest diabetes specialists of the twentieth century.

Written for the lay public, this book describes innovations in the treatment of diabetes before and after the discovery of insulin through the life story of Dr. Elliott P. Joslin, who wrote the first English textbook on the treatment of diabetes. Nurtured by the love of his mother, a staunch New England Puritan, Joslin, the son of a shoemaker in a village outside Boston, rose to be arguably the greatest diabetologist of the 20th-century.