BEST, Charles Herbert (1899 – 1978)
1899 – 1978
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Gar Lunney · via Library and Archives Canada National Film Board Mat Release No. 247, February 2, 1960. · Public domain
1921 CE–1922 CE
#1205
The internal secretion of the pancreas.
This paper reports the isolation of insulin. An extract from the pancreas of a dog, removed after ligation of the excretory duct, was found to exercise a reducing influence on the percentage of sugar in the blood. Dig…
1922 CE
#3968
Pancreatic extracts in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
The first clinical application of insulin in the treatment of diabetes. Co-authored by W. R. Campbell, and A. A. Fletcher. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1922 CE
#3966
The internal secretion of the pancreas. (Abstract).
A preliminary one-page communication regarding the isolation of insulin, made to a meeting of the American Physiological Society in December 1921. Digital facsimile from insulin.library.utoronto.ca at this link. In 19…
1927 CE
#1916
The nature of the vaso-dilator constituents of certain tissue extracts.
Proof that histamine occurs in certain organs in amounts sufficient to account for the depressant action of extracts of these organs. With H. H. Dale, H. W. Dudley, and W. V. Thorpe.
1937 CE
#3019
Heparin and the thrombosis of veins following injury.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Murray, Jaques, Perrett, Best. Heparin was discovered by Jay McLean and William Henry Howell in 1916; however it was not tested as an anticoagulant in clinical trials u…