On the treatment of diabetes by free phosphorus / by Balmanno Squire.
- Squire, Balmanno, -1908.
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the treatment of diabetes by free phosphorus / by Balmanno Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![]1 over tlie back of his neck, on his forearms, and on the backs of his liands. In my view the Eczema, and the boils equally, are in such cases the direct result of the Diabetes. As I have often pointed out on different occasions, Eczema is essentially a disease of debility, a concomitant and an effect of impaired nutrition. More especially, is it a frequent i-esult of ' nervous debility ' (iieurasthenid). I have often traced it as a direct consequence of prolonged mental tension, and I have not infrequently ob- served a sharp attack of Eczema following promptly after a severe mental shock. Eczema is, by far, more common in infancy and old age than it is at the intermediate period of life: that is to say, it prevails mostly before and after the period of life, during which the constituent cells of the body enjoy their highest degree of vitality, k. chronic disease which lowers the vitality and also induces depression of mind, such as Diabetes, may there- fore well be credited as a favouring cause of Eczema, and I will add of boils as well. Having regard to the patient's age, and to the circumstance of his having Diabetes; it seemed to me, when I first saw him, that he was a person extremely likely to have sooner or later another](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22302384_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
