On the treatment of diabetes by free phosphorus / by Balmanno Squire.

  • Squire, Balmanno, -1908.
Date:
1889
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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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    attack of Eczema; although I felt some confidence that his present attack could be speedily made to vanish. His attack of Eczema and of boils, super- added to his Diabetes, had evidently brought him down very low; and indeed he presented a very decrepit and haggard appearance. He voluntarily informed me that, throughout his life, he had always been a specially nervous and excitable man. His long deprivation of sleep, from the constant and severe irritation occasioned by his Eczema, had told upon him very considerably. I accordingly regarded the probability arising from his Diabetes of renewed severe attacks of Eczema, as a somewhat grave outlook for him. He was in this position namely: that his Diabetes, because of its lowering effect on him, held out a constant menace of fresh attacks of Eczema. While, on the other hand, each attack of Eczema would certainly tend to add very gravely to the low condition already produced by his Diabetes. It appeared to me therefore, that if I was to be the means of rendering him any permanent service in respect of his Eczema; that is to say, of aiding in the avoidance of future attacks, as well as in ridding him of his present attack, I ought if prac-
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