{"id":1223,"date":"2022-01-10T06:50:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2022-01-09T15:32:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T23:32:16","slug":"fred-marjorie-a-doctor-a-dog-and-the-discovery-of-insulin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/fred-marjorie-a-doctor-a-dog-and-the-discovery-of-insulin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred &#038; Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fredandmarjorie-595x869.jpg?resize=525%2C767&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"767\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15968\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Fred &#038; Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin<\/em><br \/>\nby Deborah Kerbel (Author) and Angela Poon (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3F4gmiI\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781771474115\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781771474115aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> In 1921, Frederick Banting was a young doctor with an idea: could the mysterious secretions of the pancreas be used to treat diabetes? We now call this substance insulin, and its life-saving discovery was an impactful milestone in medical science.<\/p>\n<p>Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, worked together in a small lab to test the theory with street dogs. Banting formed a special bond with one of his test dogs and gave her a name: Marjorie. After Marjorie responded well to insulin treatments, the treatments went on to be used for humans with diabetes&#8211;and the results were deemed practically miraculous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fredandmarjorie1-595x441.jpg?resize=525%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15967\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred &#038; Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin by Deborah Kerbel (Author) and Angela Poon (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: In 1921, Frederick Banting was a young doctor with an idea: could the mysterious secretions of the pancreas be used to treat diabetes? We now call this substance &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/fred-marjorie-a-doctor-a-dog-and-the-discovery-of-insulin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fred &#038; Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-jJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":192,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/joan-procter-dragon-doctor\/","url_meta":{"origin":1223,"position":0},"title":"Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor","author":"@roberta3","date":"December 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"With a title like Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles (by Patricia Valdez and illustrated by Felicita Sala) what child can resist this picture book biography? 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