BORNDateDate17th Jul 1908TimeTime...118 Years agoLeonard ThompsonLeonard Thompson was diabetic patient. The first person to have received an injection of insulin as a treatment for type 1 diabetes. LabelsLabelPatient,Event type-BORN-Related History ArticlesElaine EspositoLeonard ThompsonBharathirajaNirmal Jit Singh SekhonP V Narasimha RaoInsulin was used for the first time to treat diabetesG. Ram ReddyS. V. Ranga Rao Language English Telugu Hindi Tamil Kannada Malayalam Bengali Punjabi Marathi Gujarati Nepali Arabic French German Spanish Italian Japanese Korean Russian Chinese (Simplified)