History of diabetes further clarified in 1921, when Sir Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best repeated the work of Von Mering and Minkowski, and went further to demonstrate they could reverse induced diabetes in dogs by giving them an extract from the pancreatic islets of Langerhans of healthy dogs. The islets of Langerhans was discovered in 1869 by an anatomist named Paul Langerhans. He identified the keys cells in the pancreas which produce the main substance that controls glucose levels in the body. Banting, Best, and colleagues (especially the chemist Collip) went on to purify the hormone insulin from bovine pancreases at
Islets and skerries in the Faroes Islets and skerries in the Faroes Besides the 18 islands of the Faroes there are also several islets and skerries. The Faroe Islands consist of 779 islands, islets and skerries. The islets are small and are geographical parts of the larger islands. Suðuroy consists of 263 islands, islets and skerries, which is the largest number. The islets are measured in square hectometers (hectares), the largest being comparable in size to the smallest island, Lítla Dímun. Here is a list of the largest islets: 1. Tindhólmur (65,0 sqhm), at Sørvágur Vágar 2. Mykineshólmur (45,0 sqhm), at Mykines 3. Trøllhøvdi (19,0 sqhm),