Iletin, 1920s
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Eli Lilly and Company was the first company to sell insulin for the treatment of diabetes in the United States. Iletin, the name of Lilly’s insulin product, became available in 1923. Prior to this time, almost all cases of Type 1 diabetes, mostly occurring in children or youth adults, proved fatal.
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Eli Lilly and Company
One of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, Eli Lilly and Company sits on McCarty Street, where it has resided and grown for more than one hundred years. In 1876, after serving during the Civil War and failing at a series of other business…