Notes of a diabetic case.

  • Rollo, John, -1809.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Notes of a diabetic case. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *8 ] hepatifed ammonia. Had a good (tool. Continued the bitter. % 28 th. * Made three pints of urine during this day and night. Drank in the fame time two tumblers of water with hepatifed ammonia. Had a good ftool. I walked this day more than ufual, went down to the Warren and was weighed (the refult of which has been already given). In my return home purchafed fome apples, and eat a large one. Continued the bitter. ..... * 29 th. * My urine increafed to very near a quart, and of a paler colour, (a portion of this was evapo- rated, and it yielded a faccharine matter refem- bling honey.) I went to London, drank fome coffee, and eat a Shrewsbury cake, and returned to Woolwich to dinner. Drank two tumblers of water with hepatifed ammonia. Had a good ftool. One of the fores on my loins healed up, the other healing. It may be here remarked, that the progrefs of the cafe has juftified our fecond primary inference, namely, that the faccharine matter proved a new and