The gift of Dr. Minot

Year Published: 1966

Creator: Teaching Film Custodians

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television series episode, "The Gift of Dr. Minot" (season 3, episode 20), which originally aired on April 12th, 1955 on ABC-TV. This film re-enacts the research of Boston physician and Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Minot, who disregarded his own diabetic condition to develop a cure for pernicious anemia in 1922. Concurrently, Canadian Dr. Frederick Banting (also a Nobel Prize winner) perfected insulin as a cure for diabetes, enabling Minot to conclude his experiment., Adapted from the 1955 Cavalcade of America TV program. Dramatizes the experimentation and research of Dr George Minot, who disregarded his own diabetic condition to effect the cure for pernicious anemia in 1932, which won for him the 1934 Nobel award for medicine. , Adapted from the 1955 Cavalcade of America TV program. Dramatizes the experimentation and research of Dr George Minot, who disregarded his own diabetic condition to effect the cure for pernicious anemia in 1932, which won for him the 1934 Nobel award for medicine.

Complete Record: Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television series episode, "The Gift of Dr. Minot" (season 3, episode 20), which originally aired on April 12th, 1955 on ABC-TV. This film re-enacts the research of Boston physician and Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Minot, who disregarded his own diabetic condition to develop a cure for pernicious anemia in 1922. Concurrently, Canadian Dr. Frederick Banting (also a Nobel Prize winner) perfected insulin as a cure for diabetes, enabling Minot to conclude his experiment., Adapted from the 1955 Cavalcade of America TV program. Dramatizes the experimentation and research of Dr George Minot, who disregarded his own diabetic condition to effect the cure for pernicious anemia in 1932, which won for him the 1934 Nobel award for medicine. , Adapted from the 1955 Cavalcade of America TV program. Dramatizes the experimentation and research of Dr George Minot, who disregarded his own diabetic condition to effect the cure for pernicious anemia in 1932, which won for him the 1934 Nobel award for medicine. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.