On the relation between diabetes and food and its application to the treatment of the disease / by Arthur Scott Donkin.

Date:
1875
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Credit: On the relation between diabetes and food and its application to the treatment of the disease / by Arthur Scott Donkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    AGGRAVATED BY NEW MILK. consisting of ordinary solid animal food, with a moderate proportion of fat and vegetable sub- stances, not altogether free from starch; his beverage was a bottle or more of claret in the day. Under this regimen the urine ranged from four to six pints daily, with a specific gravity varying from 1032 to 1042—never higher; it was loaded with sugar, for the detection of which he had skilfully used the ordinary tests for a long period. On November 28 he passed four pints of urine, having a density of 1041. On the day following he placed himself on an exclusively milk diet; but he was residing in the country, and took new milk rich in cream and yielded by a particular cow; ' nearly as good,' he observed, ' as London cream.' Of this he took six pints daily, and ad- hered to it rigidly for eleven days. During this period his urine ranged from four to eight pints, and the specific gravity rose from 1040 to 1046, with a considerable increase in the quantity of sugar. On December 10 he abandoned the new milk diet and resumed his previous restricted regimen ; and during the next few days the specific gravity of the urine again fell, and ranged from 1032 to