The starvation method versus gradual carbohydrate reduction as a time saver in the treatment of diabetes / by Henry A. Christian, M.D., Boston.
- Henry Asbury Christian
- Date:
- [1915?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The starvation method versus gradual carbohydrate reduction as a time saver in the treatment of diabetes / by Henry A. Christian, M.D., Boston. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[Reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. clxxii, No. 25, pp. 929-933, June 24, 1915] THE STARVATION METHOD VERSUS GRADUAL CARBOHYDRATE REDUC¬ TION AS A TIME SAVER IN THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES. By Henry A. Christian, M.D., Boston. [From the Medical Clinic of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.] A large proportion of the diabetic patients coming to onr hospitals are wage earners or housewives, only in part incapacitated for their regular duties. A small proportion are advanced cases no longer able to work. To the former, days saved in their treatment are of very great importance. Incidentally days saved in treat¬ ment are economies in hospital administration, which allow the benefits of the institution to be bestowed upon more individuals per annum. In both ways there is a marked gain in shortening the time required for treatment in any disease. With these facts in mind let us examine our methods of managing diabetes from the point of view of time. Today in treating a diabetic we seek first to grade the case according to severity, second to get the patient’s urine sugar-free, and third to establish his limits of tolerance to glucose-pro¬ ducing foods, and so far as possible to increase this tolerance, and in doing this we desire to avoid risks to the patient and to maintain the patient in as good a state of strength and com¬ fort as possible. For the first we find out the patient’s excretion of glucose and acetone bodies when ingesting some standard diet containing known amounts of protein, carbohydrate and fat. 1 -4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30800808_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
