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
Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans referred to the tale as "one of (Ellison's) most ambitious and provocative tales to date." Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" is an award-winning 1974 science fiction novelette by Harlan Ellison. It was originally published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" in October 1974, and subsequently republished in Ellison's 1975 anthology "Deathbird Stories", in the 1991 Byron Preiss-edited anthology "The Ultimate Werewolf", and in Ellison's 2006 anthology "The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective". Larry Talbot wants to die, but cannot