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UTL's Wikipedia project is currently focused on improving content on the history of diabetes and the discovery and early development of insulin. Other collections have so far been used for minor edits, and will be used more extensively in the coming months. We invite everyone to benefit from our digital collections and use our materials to improve Wikipedia. See here for a list of our digital collections. Specific collections have also been flagged for volunteer help in How to Help. For an overview of UTL's projects on Wikidata, please visit Wikidata:WikiProject_University_of_Toronto_Libraries. Baileychui (talk) 17:43, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply] Andreamccutcheonutarms (talk) The Discovery and Early Development of Insulin   This collection draws together relevant material from the initial period of the discovery and development of insulin, 1920-1925 at the University of Toronto. In 1923, the Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Frederick Banting and J. J. R. Macleod formally recognized the achievement of the Toronto team in discovering and developing insulin.[1] In 2013, this collection was inscribed into UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.[2] This extensive collection contains over 7,000 items reproducing original documents ranging from laboratory notebooks and charts, correspondence, and published papers to photographs, awards, and artifacts. These were mostly digitized from material held by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. The interactive timeline presents a chronological summary of the discovery and development of insulin as a pharmaceutical product.[3] Notes Text-based edits from this project seek to improve the balanced and verifiable representation of history surrounding the discovery and early development of insulin. All contributions draw on thorough familiarity with the digitized primary sources held by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, and on the most authoritative and balanced secondary sources to date. Among these contextual sources is the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Michael Bliss's Discovery of Insulin (2007; updated the 1982 publication) and numerous complementary interventions published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Where Wikipedia's existing narrative is adequate and accurate to date, I enrich the bibliography to help verify the content and to provide entry points to quality sources for further research. Primary sources are contributed where self-evident. For example, a 1923 Nobel Prize medal inscribed to Frederick Banting makes self-evident the fact that the Nobel Prize was awarded to him in 1923. Where contextual interpretation is required to understand the cited material, balanced secondary sources are used to support the contribution. I may rearrange media or links to facilitate the Wikipedia community's research needs. Most material in UTL's insulin collection is historical in nature. On topical pages which include a mix of scientific and historical overviews, rearrangement will be sensitive to the overall focus of the page. Where chunks of notable information are missing, I create new sections/pages to expand coverage. For example, the Academy of Medicine of Toronto and the Connaught Laboratories played important institutional roles in relation to the development of insulin and more broadly, in Canadian medical history from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. Contributions This project has built on existing work on the following pages: Insulin Insulin (medication) Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin Charles Best (medical scientist), co-discoverer of insulin J. J. R. Macleod, co-discoverer of insulin J.B. Collip, co-discoverer of insulin James D. Havens, early patient Constance Collier, early patient Eli Lilly & Company, early collaborator in insulin mass-production John G. FitzGerald, founder of Connaught Laboratories and peacemaker for the insulin project The following pages have been authored from scratch to contribute notable medical institutional history: Academy of Medicine of Toronto, a continuing medical education institution for Ontario researchers and practitioners Connaught Laboratories, a non-commercial public health institution based at the University of Toronto until 1972 The following pages have been expanded significantly: History of diabetes Frederick Banting#Statements on Hudson's Bay Company Anatomia Collection: Anatomical Plates 1522-1867   This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Each illustration has been fully indexed using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), and techniques of illustration, artists, and engravers have been identified whenever possible. There are 95 individual titles represented, ranging in date from 1522 to 1867. Contributions Images from the collection, external links, and general citations have been added to a number of relevant pages. Anatomy Outline of human anatomy Frederik Ruysch Govert Bidloo Gerard de Lairesse William Cowper (anatomist) The Barren Lands: J.B. Tyrrell's Expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada, 1892-1894   This collection documents two exploratory surveys of the Barren Lands region west of Hudson Bay, in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the area now known as Nunavut. Drawing on materials from the Joseph Burr Tyrrell, James Tyrrell and related collections at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, it includes over 5,000 images from original field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, maps and published reports. Notes This collection has been flagged for collaboration with indigenous knowledge communities. Contributions External links have been added to directly relevant pages. Joseph Tyrrell First Nations Agnes Chamberlin   This collection consists of over three hundred original paintings of Canadian flora and mushrooms by Agnes Chamberlin (1833-1913), dating from the period 1863 to the 1900s, as well as Chamberlin's published works, in all editions, and the original subscription books for the first two editions of Canadian wild flowers. The collection includes page images, descriptions, and full digital text where available. English names are provided for 209, alternate English names are provided for 73, and Latin names are provided for all of the plants illustrated. Contributions External links, textual edits, and citations have been added to directly relevant pages. Agnes Dunbar Moodie Fitzgibbon Catherine Parr Traill Patent Medicine   This collection consists of a wide range of materials documenting the patent medicine industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s and 1970s. Contributions Patent medicine Kellogg's All-Bran Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides This collection contains pre-1930 Canadian pamphlets and broadsides printed in Canada, by Canadian authors, or about Canadian subjects, mainly of a non-literary nature. Contributions William Briggs (publisher) Collection of Manuscript Fragments This is a collection of 190 pieces of vellum in Greek and Latin illustrating the history and development of handwriting from the 4th century until the end of the Middle Ages. 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1. "Nobel Prize medal inscribed to F. G. Banting | The Discovery and Early Development of Insulin". University of Toronto Libraries.
2. "The Discovery of Insulin and its Worldwide Impact | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". UNESCO Memory of the World.
3. "Interactive Timeline | The Discovery and Early Development of Insulin". University of Toronto Libraries. Retrieved 13 February 2019.