Cases of diabetes, illustrating the effects of certain modes of treatment on some of the symptoms of the disease / by Edward Latham Ormerod.

  • Edward Ormerod
Date:
[1847]
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Credit: Cases of diabetes, illustrating the effects of certain modes of treatment on some of the symptoms of the disease / by Edward Latham Ormerod. 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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    few important particulars, which henceforward begin to le noticed, namely, the influence of the atmospheric changes, but just at the present period, most strikingly, the influence of diet upon the phenomena of his disease here recorded. Within four days the twenty-eight ounces of bread were knocked off from his allowance, and this article does not appear again in his dietary till March 10. The period during which the chief changes were made is present- ed below separate from the rest. The notes made during this time speak chiefly of pain in the stomach and occasional profuse perspiration. His weight remained about 140 pounds during the week next following. Food. Urine. Date. Pulse. Fluid. Solid. Fluid. Solid. Spec, gravity. No. Nov. 24 163 30 193 20-9 1046 14 120 25 163 23 185 21-9 31 13 96 26 143 23 175 18'7 46 12 96 27 140 43 170 18-6 47 12 104 28 130 48 160 17-5 47 H 114 29 120 48 155 13-5 43 11 100 30 110 48 130 14-6 42 11 108 Mean, 138-4 37-5 170 18-2 1046 12 103 showing already a striking diminution. The bread taken from his allowance had been replaced by meat, with the addition of greens. During the next short period the daily allowance of meat was from thirty-two to forty ounces, with sixteen ounces of greens. But at present, while the changes from the alteration of his diet are so rapid, we forbear the examination of any further particulars, whose influence would be quite lost sight of among so many greater changes. Food. Urine. Date. Pulse. Fluid. Solid. Fluid. Solid. Spec, gravity. No. Dec. I 110 48 145 151 1043 10 96 2 100 56 140 13-0 46 10 108 3 90 56 135 14-4 46 10 108 4 90 36 130 13-6 45 9 X 3 90 36 123 10-4 36 9 104 6 80 56 120 10-3 37 9 96 7 80 56 120 111 40 8 104 8 80 56 113 10-9 40 8 120 9 80 .32 113 10-9 40 8 120 10 80 32 110 8-2 32 8 90 Mean, 88 30-4 123-5 11-9 1040-7 8-9 105-1 a result confirmatory of the inferences from the previous analysis. D
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