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Eli Lilly and insulin
1876
Indianapolis, Indiana
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
A Civil War colonel started a laboratory on the principle that medicines should be tested and consistently dosed, which most were not. In 1923 Lilly took the Toronto insulin discovery and worked out how to make it at scale, turning diabetes from a death sentence into a managed illness within two years.
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