It has been proven that diabetes has been in existence for a long time. It can be traced back to the Egyptians around 1500 B.C where some accounts on diabetes were made. The more 
detailed descriptions made on the process of the disease were attributed to Aretaeus who was a Cappadocian around second century A.D and Paracelsus whose area of living was not indicated. In the 1600′ sit was discovered that the urine of a diabetic person is sweet as if it had been imbued with either honey or sugar, which is one of the ways of detecting that one has the disease.
In the year 1776, Dr Matthew Dobson identified the urine sweetness was as a result of sugar. Later on in 1889 Dr.Oskar Minkowski and Dr. J.V. Mering discovered that the removal of pancreas in animals could cause diabetes. But it was not until 1900 when Dr Eugene Opie discovered that the disease had an association with the degeneration involved in a group of cells, which are found in the pancreas and known as Langerhans. In 1922 Best and Bantin proved that there was a protein extracted from pancrease known as insulin helped control diabetes. Diabetes has over the years seen a lot of progress especially in its discovery.