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Credit: Diabetes : its cause and permanent cure / by Emil Schnée. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![affections of the ear; from running ears, headache, vertigo, sickness, fainting-fits, etc. Since all of the above cases of glycosuria have been caused by forcible interferences with the health of the subject, or arose in cases of illness; and since they have occurred only as symptoms and as the re- sults of such definite interferences and illnesses, there applies to this particular, curable, and—as it may be called—accidental form of glycosuria what has been declared erroneously of “ diabetes ” in the “ Tran- sactions of the Medical Congress” for 1886 (p. 177):—“This pathological condition is no illness, but a symptom, just as is the case with fever or icterus. The most diverse aetiological causes are at work in producing it [t.e., glycosuria, as I suggest], and the secretion of sugar is only to be regarded as a symptom,” etc. Wherever, indeed, there is no hereditary predispo- sition, accidental glycosuria only, not diabetes, will arise from such merely accidental causes. Glycosuria becomes chronic, or, according to the prevailing idea, it becomes “ incurable,” and thus manifests itself as “ diabetes,” only in persons who are here- ditarily predisposed for it. A.Vulpian (in “ Lemons sur Tappareil vasomoteur,” Paris, 1875) is decidedly wrong in making the follow- ing general declaration :—“ Glycosuria is only a symptom of that malady which is known as diabetes, a malady which physiology has thus far been unable to produce. Glycosuria, in the form in which we have just determined it, lasts for one, two, and some-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24976167_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
