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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![He re])orted to me as follows respecting tliis first sample of urine :— Eeddens litmus strongly: Sp. gr. 1033 ; Albu- men, faint trace; Sugar, 25 grs. per fl. oz. of urine, = 1700 grs. in 24. hours; the amount of urine voided being 68 fl. oz. Now 1700 grains is exactly 4 ounces. The patient therefore, even in this his improved condition, was passing 4 ounces of sugar a day. I felt myself to be in a position of peculiar difficulty in attempting the investigation I had undertaken. The object of it was that I might be able to inform Dr. Jones, on something like accurate data, what was the precise effect that this newly found remedy was capable of exercising on his patient's condition. The questions to be solved were these:—Is the patient better of his Diabetes ■when taking phosphorus, than he is when not taking phosphorus ? If he is better when taking phosphorus how much the better is he ? Pre- existing data there were none ; the patient had never yet measured his twenty-four hours' quantity of urine, nor had it ever yet been measured. Without this first and foremost factor no other datum was of any use ; certainly not specific gravity, certainly not any other datum of whatsoever kind.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22302384_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
