Desmond Lorne Marcus McNeill

Born in Ootacamund, India, Desmond developed diabetes at the age of 5 in 1926, while on a family skiing holiday in Switzerland, and was first treated there with insulin. It was difficult finding a school in those days that was able to cope with a diabetic child. Under the care of R D Lawrence at Kings, he met Banting and Best. Initially he went up to Oxford to read biochemistry but changed …