An essay on diabetes / Translated by Alfred Markwick.

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

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    with aromatic sulphuric acid, and, in order to deter- mine to the skin, he was ordered the warm bath every second night. As he complained much of frontal headache and loss of memory, his head was shaved, and afterwards a blister was applied to the nape of the neck. He was ordered, on the 31st of January, the following combination of gentian and opium. Infus. Gentian Ibss ; Tinct. Qpii 5 gr. M. Cap. 5 iss.; Misturae sexta quaque hora. As the urine was still about 18 pounds, and as very little impression had been made on the disease, the quantity of laudanum in the mixture was in- creased to an ounce, and a blister applied to the nape of the neck on the 6th of February. From this time the urine began to diminish in quantity; his headache was less, his strength was greater, his thirst diminished, and his tongue was pretty clean; but his bowels required the regular use of the colo- cynth pill. He was discharged on the 15th of March, nearly cured, his urine being about 90 ounces of specific gravity 1.011, having a very urinous odour; but it is not all improbable that the disease will return if he be again exposed to the irregularities of his avocation. Dr. Graves has published, in the sixth volume of the Dublin Journal of the Medical Sciences, p. 74, a case of Aqueous Diabetes, in which the symp- toms were still more severe.
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