Who discovered Diabetes is a matter of debate. Credit for naming the disease “Diabetes” is given to a Greek physician, Aretaeus. In Greek, Diabetes translates into the word siphon and was given this name because Aretaeus believed the symptoms of excess thirst and urination produced a siphoning effect on the body. Decades later, in 1674 a man named Thomas Willis added the term “Mellitus” meaning honey to the term Diabetes for the condition we today call Diabetes Mellitus. Little information was discovered in the following years. Even treatment options were limited, including leeches, starvation, and taking opium. None of these methods was successful.

In 1889, two German doctors are the next men who “discovered” Diabetes. As the disease and its existence had been known for centuries, they cannot take claim for the discovery of the disease, but they can be credited for another feat. They identified that the issue of …