On diabetes, and its successful treatment / by John M. Camplin.
- Camplin, John M. (John Mussendine)
- Date:
- 1858
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On diabetes, and its successful treatment / by John M. Camplin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![in water whicli it ouglit to undergo before being prepared for the table, further diminishes the proportion of starch. With regard to vegetables, I have almost confined myself to the cruciferse, as they can be obtained in London during the greater part of the year; the young cabbage, is, perhaps, at once the cheapest and best for ordinary use. Cauliflowers, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, &c., give considerable variety. Seakail is excellent, but rather too expensive; the late Dr. Pereira recommended sour krout to me : but having fresh vegetables at hand I have never tried it. Since my recovery, I have taken French and scarlet beans, without injury; but should consider the cruciferae highly preferable for the actually diabetic. Spinach is generally con- sidered allowable, and indeed recommended; and those who reside in the coimtry might add to the list other plants of the same natural order, such as the Chenopodium bonus Hen- ricus, and the younger leaves of the common beet, both of which I have tasted, and found them very agreeable. My friend, ]Mr. Ward, in conversation with him on the subject, sug- gested that the leaves of the Beta Cicla and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21495919_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
