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Credit: Notes of a diabetic case. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![£ aj ] denary.' To both we beg leave to refer, as our prefent cafe bears a refemblance to it; efpecially in that part of it previous to the acceffion of diabetes. In thofe accounts of Bulimia nothing is mentioned with regard to urine. But the difeafe is faid to terminate fatally in atrophy, clropfy, &c. Sauvage fays, the Bulimia Canina is owing to an acrimony of the digeftive juices, and an irritability of the flomach. Abforbents or alkalies, fat meats, oils, fedativcs and narcotics, are the remedies point- ed out. Do&'or James obferves, that in Bulimia, u fuch medicines as mightily relax and moifteri the ftomach, and correct the acidity of the hu- mour, have a peculiar virtue in taking off the fenfe of hunger. Of this fort are all pinguious, and oleaginous things •, as fats, oils, and the extremities of animals. Thus Villanovanus re- lates, that a certain man affefled with this dif- Order, eat pot-bread dipt in lees of oil; and that a woman in the like cafe, drank twice the melted fat of beef, with a like quantity of ho£ oil; and that both thefe patients contracted fo great a loath- ing of food, that neither of them eat any thinp- for five days, and fo got rid of their di Item per. Nar- cotics, by blunting the too exquifite fenfe of the O do mac Iff](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28407581_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
