New aspects of diabetes : pathology and treatment lectures delivered at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and published by their authority / by Carl von Noorden.

  • Noorden, Carl von, 1858-1944.
Date:
1913
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Credit: New aspects of diabetes : pathology and treatment lectures delivered at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and published by their authority / by Carl von Noorden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFATORY NOTE 9* f'/r* One of the leading features of internal medicine, as taught and practiced in Germany at the present time, is the attention given to problems of digestion and metabolism. The advances in theoretical chem- istry and their application to the studies in the phy- siology and pathology of nutrition have opened up most promising perspectives into the correlations of organs of the human body and have furthermore stim- ulated in Germany, in a most fruitful way, that art of healing which is based on scientific principles. Our country has followed Germany very closely in the last ten years in this direction and indeed has taken an advanced independent attitude on many fun- damental points. The general interest in these mat- ters is shown by the valuable researches made upon foods which the Department of Agriculture of our government has carried out and by the interest demon- strated by our universities, scientific laboratories and the general public. The medical profession in gen- eral practice, however, has not as yet taken that in- terest in questions of nutrition which these problems deserve, but the interest is growing rapidly and the demands for teaching on these lines has been felt more and more in medical colleges and especially in post- graduate medical schools. Prof. Carl von Noorden has been identified for