The determined painter: Sir Frederick Banting

The Contribution of Sir Frederick Banting to Silicosis Research.

AT the request of the Editor of the Journal I am very glad indeed to contribute a few brief paragraphs, with, more or less, a personal note, relating to the late Sir Frederick Banting, for publication in this commemoration number. In the passing of Fred Banting I lost a colleague for whom I had a most profound respect and admiration, and also a very dear friend. During twenty years it was my pr...

Frederick Banting (1891-1941): Discoverer of insulin.

2 1Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Hawaii, 2Research carried out during 1st year residency, Transitional Residency Program, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA Correspondence: Prof Tan Siang Yong, 2226 Liliha Street, Suite B-104, Honolulu, HI 96817, USA. [email protected] I am a firm believer in the theory that you can do or be anything that you wish in this world, within reason, i...

Sir Frederick Mott

The cause of the Association for Mental Welfare, no less than the scientific aspect of psychiatry, has suffered a great loss by the death of Sir Frederick Mott. This is no place to deal in detail with the purely scientific side of his activities, but some knowledge of their general tendency is required in order to assess the great influence that he exercised on our conceptions of the treatment ...

Sir Frederick Willis

Frederick Banting and the opportunities of research by general practitioners.

776 CMAJ, April 19, 2011, 183(7) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Iwish I could have been in Banting’s audience when he addressed the Canadian Medical Association in June 1926. I suspect that there would have been few women present, and I wonder what the audience made of the youthful speaker with his already extraordinarily distinguished resumé. The text of the lecture was p...