![]() ![]() For a while, he considered following his father into medicine. In early childhood, Michael, as he was known, would join his father when he was called out to perform his duties as the local coroner. He grew up in Kingsville, a farming and fishing town just to the west. John William Michael Bliss was born in Leamington, Ontario, to Dr. That “raised for me a methodological interest in the possibility of very detailed, day-to-day recreation of past discrete events,” he wrote, adding, “If you could virtually retrace the footsteps of Arctic explorers could you virtually redo the insulin experiments?” ![]() He was also inspired, he said, by his reading on Arctic exploration. Description: The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. He chose the development of insulin as a subject partly because earlier accounts, he found, were inadequate. Author : Michael Bliss Category : Medical Publisher : University of Toronto Press Published : Type : PDF & EPUB Page : 320 Download. Bliss said his shift to medical history had been due in part to his family - his father was a small-town doctor on the shore of Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario - as well as “a kind of midlife change of pace.” “He always tried to disseminate his research to the widest possible audience.” ![]() “Deep down he was a writer,” McKellar said. ![]()
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