Cases of diabetes, illustrating the effects of certain modes of treatment on some of the symptoms of the disease / by Edward Latham Ormerod.
- Ormerod, Edward Latham, 1819-1873.
- Date:
- 1847
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
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![derably raises the nominal amount of solid food,) and ordered to continue the vapour bath. Date. Food. Urine. Pulse. Fluid. Solid. Fluid. Solid. Sp. Grav. No. Dec. 12 104 29 70 7*0 1043 7 90 13 104 — 80 8-0 43 9 80 14 144 „ 170 17-4 44 11 80 15 104 160 14'9 40 10 90 16 84 - 140 13'0 40 9 100 17 a. 104 . ■ - 140 13-0 40 10 100 18 84 __ 110 10-7 42 8 100 19 84 110 11-0 43 8 106 20 a. 104 -__ 90 8-5 41 8 94 21 104 — 130 11-8 38 7 96 22 64 — 120 10-9 39 8 98 23 a. 64 — 140 13*7 42 9 96 24 104 _ 160 13-7 37 9 100 25 a. 104 _ 140 13-3 41 7 100 26 104 — 170 16-2 41 8 102 Giving in the same way an average of [ 97*3 | 29 j 128-6 ] 12’2 | 1040*9 | 8-5 | 89*4 It will be seen from comparing this with the previous ave¬ rage, that the disease had made progress in all the particulars here recorded, except in the amount of fluid drunk, which is less ; but reflecting that nearly the whole of the 12 ounces of greens should be set down as water, the difference in this respect is not so striking as it may at first sight appear. This point will bear a little more accurate examination. It appears, on adding together the averages of the two first columns in these two tables respec¬ tively, that the amounts are nearly equal, namely, 127.9 and 126.3. With this diminished amount of ingesta, slight though the change be, we have an increase in the amount of the urine, and a greater frequency of the pulse. Is this change for the worse to be attributed to the creasote, to the change in diet, or to the advance of the disease ? The increase continued after the use of the creasote was suspended, whence we infer that the increase did not depend on its employment, while the amount of urine is sen¬ sibly reduced in the first average taken after , the omission of the green vegetable food, so that thus far this last stands convicted. But this article seems so nearly to supply the place of an equal amount of fluid, judging from the sums of the two tables, that we do not feel disposed to admit it to have had an influence which may be solely attributable to the state of the weather, or to the progress of the disease, for this disease, like others, does not always go on evenly to its termination.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31962841_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
