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Diabetes has been studied from more than one thousand years, where it was most common in Egypt. (C Health, 2006) In Egypt, it was not named diabetes. In the year 1552 B.C.E, an ancient Egyptian doctor named Hesy-Ra examined a patient who had to go to the bathroom often. (C Health, 2006) He did not know what was causing the illness, but he thought that a special diet might help. (C Health, 2006) The foods he suggested were fruits, grains, and honey. (C Health, 2006) The diet helped, but didn't cure the patient. (C Health, 2006) Around the same time as Hesy-Ra, doctors in China and India saw patients with similar problems. (C Health, 2006)Like Hesy-Ra, the doctors did not know how to treat the illness. (C Health, 2006) The doctors from India thought that the patients were eating too much, so they told them to cut down on the food.

Around 100-175 C.E, the disease was mostly known as diabetes. (C Health, 2006) (Juvenile Diabetes)The name diabetes might have been Galen of Pergamum, Apollonius of Memphis, or Aretaeus of Cappadocia. These men were Greek doctors. Back when diabetes was just becoming a disease, many people died because a cure was not yet found. This cure is insulin. (Hicks, 2001) This was given to the first human in 1922, an eleven year old boy. (Hicks, 2001) Diabetes comes from the Greek word "siphon". Siphon is a tube that is used to drain liquids. The siphon in this case is the penis, which urinates all of the sugar out obtained by the kidney out of the body. (Hicks, 2001)