Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 Bill, a student in Duxbury, Massachusetts, was a gifted student with wide-ranging interests in photography, math, and journalism. But in other ways, he was unremarkable. He was constantly thirsty, and his parents took him to the doctor, who found that his blood sugar was elevated.

#2 Bill's parents were told that it was just bad genes, but there was a silver lining: a treatment regimen that would require him to manually perform all the tasks that his body should have been doing automatically.

#3 The clinical symptoms of type 1 diabetes were first recorded some 3,000 years ago in Egypt. It was another 1,500 years before Aretaeus, a Cappadocian physician who spoke Greek, described a melting down of the flesh and limbs into urine, a condition he named diabetes after the Greek word for siphon.

#4 The treatment worked in dogs, and it was later used on humans. It was the discovery of insulin that changed the course of life for millions of people worldwide.