Some recent advances in the treatment of glycosuria and diabetes / by O. Rozenraad.

  • Rozenraad, Octave.
Date:
1908
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    THE POLYCLINIC THE JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL GRADUATES' COLLEGE, LONDON Edited by C. O. Hawthorne, m.D No. 12. DECEMBER, 1908. Vol. 12. CONTENTS. PAGE Some Recent Advances in the Treatment of Glycosuria and Diabetes. By Dr. O. Rozenraad 113 Hand-List of Portraits Illustrating Syphilitic Symptoms and Conditions. By Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, LL.D., F.R.S. 120 mark s Hemisine9beand Products (1-1000) Present the active Principle of the Supra-renal Gland PHYSBOLOGSGAUY STANDARDISED * Reduced facsimile ‘ HEMISINE ’ is issued in amber-coloured glass- stoppered bottles, containing 5 c.c. or 10 c,c. Each • caiton contains a supply of * Soloid ’ Sodium IChloride, 0*23 gin., for the preparation of Normal ■ Sa'ine Solution for use in diluting ‘ Hemisinef Supplied to the Medical Profession as follows: 5 c.c. 1 /3 / 10 c.c. 2\- SS ‘ VAPOROLE’ ixAND ‘ HEMISINE5 Issued in hermetically-sealed phials containing Q‘5 c.c. (sterile), especially suitable for injection . and local application. Supplied to the Medical Profession in boxes containing- / doz. phials at 2/6 per box Write for special ‘Hemisine ’ Booklet. Burroughs Weuucomb & Co., London (Eng.) Branches: New York Montreal Sydney .XX 49] Cape Town Shanghai [Copyright SOME RECENT ADVANCES IN THE TREATMENT OF GLYCOSURIA AND DIABETES.1 BY DR. O. ROZENRAAD, Bad Homburg. Gentlemen,-—I must first thank you for the honour which you have conferred upon me by inviting me to deliver this lecture, the more so that this honour is conferred upon a medical man who has not come from your ranks, but has had his medical career and training abroad, in Germany and Vienna. During the past two years, when I have been doing post-graduate work, I have had the opportunity to be in Vienna with Professor von Noorden, whose research work on dia- betes and glycosuria began when he was in Frankfort-on-Main, and I treated, when in Vienna, about 150 cases of diabetes at his private sanatorium. In choosing for my subject to-day Dia- betes, I am conscious that I am dealing with a subject upon which the most eminent men of this country and abroad have tried “to throw a light into the dark corners of this branch of medicine/’ and yet the causes of diabetes are unknown to us. The etiology of diabetes has been for the past fifty years the subject of much interest- ing physiological and pathological research work. After the discovery of the piqure by Claude Bernard much importance was given to this experiment, and the cause of diabetes was brought in relation to an affection of the nervous system. A very important fact to know is that traumatic neurosis causes 1 Lecture given at the Medical Graduates’ College and Polyclinic on November 13, 1908.