An essay on diabetes / Translated by Alfred Markwick.

  • Bell, H., 1808-
Date:
1842
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Credit: An essay on diabetes / Translated by Alfred Markwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to alleviate than cure the disease, by the therapeuti- cal agents we have at our disposition. Treatment.—The means of preventing the produc- tion of urea in the urine, are entirely unknown to us, consequently we have a great deal to discover with respect to the treatment of Diabetes with Excess of Urea. Most of the authors who have mentioned it, have adopted in this form of Diabetes, the treatment which appeared the less inefficacious in Diabetes Mellitus, and we have nothing further to add to what they have said on the subject. A purely animal diet, administered in the manner above mentioned, has the twofold advantage of pre- venting the formation of saccharine matter on the one hand, and on the other, of diminishing the quan- tity of urine. To this may advantageously he added^ some preparation of opium, which will act in the same manner, and also diminish the frequent desires to make water. Dr. Venables asserts having obtained great benefit from the employment of tonics and astringents, especially in combination with opium. Pills of extract of opium and gum kino, have ap- peared to him rapidly to diminish the diuresis. It is necessary to prevent the patients from taking liquids in large quantity, especially those of an ex- citing nature, such as tea, coffee, spirituous liquors, strong, and more particularly white wines. The cutaneous transpiration should be kept up by means of warm baths, frequently repeated, by warm cloth-
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