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Item is 2 original black and white photographs showing Mrs. Doyle, a diabetic patient. First photograph shows front view, the second photograph shows back view.

Typescript letter written on the Physiatric Institute letterhead and signed by Frederick M. Allen. Discussion of Elizabeth Evans Hughes.

Item is a chart used to track the blood, urine, diet in grams, and dietary prescriptions in grams. It is 1 page and filled out by hand. Chart shows that by Sept. 3rd, Hughes gained 9 pounds from the time of her first insulin injection on Aug. 17th.

Item is a newspaper clipping of 3 photographs with a caption. Photographs are of Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, Elizabeth Hughes, and Dr. F. G. Banting.

Original black and white studio portrait showing the head and shoulders of Elizabeth Hughes.
Photograph is signed 'Gratefully yours, Elizabeth E. Hughes.'

Item is a gold medal in a blue leather box. One side depicts the red dragon of Wales and bares the inscription: 'Medal insulin Cymru. Welsh insulin medal.' The other side depicts Elizabeth Hughes and the inscription: 'Elizabeth Evans Hughes…

Original black and white studio portrait. Shows Elsie Needham sitting on a bench.

1 printed sheet from the Toronto General Hospital filled out by hand and 3 handwritten note pages written on Dr. L. C. Palmer's letterhead.

2 printed Toronto General Hospital forms filled in by hand. The first form tracks urine sugar levels from July 10 to Aug. 4 and the second form tracks urine sugar levels from Aug. 5 to Sept. 1.

Photographs of Teddy Ryder, July 10, 1922 and July 10, 1923. (Originals lent by Dr. Henry Best)

Original black and white photograph. Shows Best and Banting seated in an office, formally posed. Both men are wearing three piece suits.

Original black and white photograph showing pancreas of Dog 28. Also photographed is a hand drawn bar measuring inches and cm. to show the scale of the pancreas.

Copy of a black and white photograph. Shows C. H. Best and Clark Noble sitting side by side. There is a dog in the foreground. Best and Nobel were friends and classmates in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto. In the summer of…

Item is a newspaper clipping consisting of a short article and small photograph showing Elizabeth Hughes.

Autograph letter signed by Elizabeth E. Hughes to Dr. Banting. Letter requesting more insulin and describing her general physical condition.

Item is a newspaper clipping consisting of a photograph and caption. Photograph shows Elizabeth Hughes and her husband, William Gossett, standing with their bicycles on a road in Bermuda. Photograph measures 13 x 10 cm.

Item is a newspaper article consisting of 10 columns of varying length in 3 separate clippings and a photograph with caption. Subheadings: 'Dr. Banting Tells of Way Soldiers Helped to Search for Insulin. Cites Actual Cases, Describes Wonderful…

Item is a 1 column newspaper clipping. Subheading: 'Hope Had Been Abandoned for Child Suffering from Diabetes.' Describes the case of Elsie Needham.

The video consists of two separate films of Banting: a 90-second clip of Banting from 1932 working in his Toronto laboratory, and another short clip from 1929. There is no sound.

Original black and white photograph showing Banting's head, in profile, with a dog on the roof of the Medical Building.

Item is a blue index note card. Notes on 'clinical use' of the extract in Banting's hand. Notes record the first trial of pancreatic extract on a human diabetic. The extract was given by mouth on Dec. 20 and on Dec. 21 Banting noted 'no beneficial…

Modern enlargement of a copy of a black and white photograph. A full-length shot showing J. B. Collip wearing a white lab coat and seated in a laboratory.

Copy of a black and white photograph showing lab equipment in the Connaught Laboratories.