Word “insulin” used for the first time today in 1922 Home › Forums › Word “insulin” used for the first time today in 1922 Tagged: insulin, pancreatin This topic has 0 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 12 years, 7 months ago by Tim. Viewing 0 reply threads Author Posts 3 May, 2012 at 8:43 am #6161 TimKeymaster According to the world diabetes day twitter feed “on this day in 1922, the word #insulin was used for the first time in public”. I preferred the other proposed name “pancreatin”; if you could rename insulin what would you call it? Author Posts Viewing 0 reply threads You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In