Remarks on diabetes : especially with reference to treatment / by William Richardson.

Date:
1871
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Credit: Remarks on diabetes : especially with reference to treatment / by William Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    could prevent the formation of sugar, and di- minish the increased action of the heart, and that the best means to effect this object were repose, an entire abstinence from vegetable matter and the use of emetics, narcotics etc. Early in this century Nicolas and Gaudeville looked on this disease as arising from an in- testinal affection, in consequence of which the chyle instead of being composed of nitrogenous matter, consisted of less perfectly elaborated elements of saccharine matter and not fitted for the nutrition of the body. In 1837 McGregor detected sugar in the blood ; he also discovered it in the matter vo- mitted by a diabetic patient, who had been fed for three days on roast beef and water: he, therefore, considered as Rollo did, that the fault was in the digestive organs; that what ought to be converted into healthy chyle was changed into saccharine matter and, entering into the circulation, was excreted by the kid- neys. Supported by the authority of Rollo, Nicolas, and Gaudeville, M. Bouchardat (Annuaire 1841) gave the following views of Diabetes. The existence of sugar in the urine has its origin in the transformation of amylaceous matter, taken as food, into sugar such as we can effect
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