Frederick Banting Sold the Cure for Diabetes for $1

A broke young surgeon found the cure for a death sentence, and sold it for one dollar.

Frederick Banting had no fame, no funding, and barely any patients.

Diabetes then was a death sentence. Children wasted away while doctors could only watch.

One sleepless night he scribbled an idea about the pancreas onto a scrap of paper.

He talked a professor into a small lab, a student, and a few dogs.

In 1922 they injected their extract into a dying boy of fourteen, and he revived.

It was insulin, and dying children around the world sat up and lived.

He could have grown unimaginably rich. Instead he sold the patent for one dollar.

He wanted insulin to belong to everyone who needed it, not to him.

He became the youngest ever to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine, the surgeon nobody wanted.

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