On diabetes, and its successful treatment / by John M. Camplin.

  • Camplin, John M. (John Mussendine)
Date:
1858
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Credit: On diabetes, and its successful treatment / by John M. Camplin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    digestion is furtlier impaired^ and all tlie symp- toms are aggravated by each other. I must, however, check myself in these re- marks, as not wishing to enter into the dis- cussion of questions which may admit of any difference of opinion, but simply to relate the facts of my own case, and the results of actual experience. June 25th, 1855.—Some time has now elapsed since my narrative was drawn up, during Avhich I have again experienced the salutary effects of the bran cake. I went bn well, notwithstanding a pretty free use of food containing starch, until November last, when the cold winds set in, and my old symptoms gradually returned. When they had attained considerable severity, they were partially checked by additional warm clothing, and re- striction to a very small quantity of bro-mi bread; at length this failed, and on the 5th of March, the specific gravity of the morning urine being 1-04], that of the afternoon 1-035, the quantity very considerable, with dry mouth, and tenderness in the back, particularly over the right kidney, it began to be time to take