Diabetes : its cause and permanent cure / by Emil Schnée.

  • Schnée, Emil, 1836-1906.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Diabetes : its cause and permanent cure / by Emil Schnée. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    more tractable in the hands of the physician than it has been hitherto. The present work contains everything of impor- tance that has thus far been written and found out concerning “ diabetes,55 and also concerning “ gly- cosuria,5’ which is frequently confounded with it on account of the sameness of its product of excretion. The essential points, in fact, of the entire literature of both these diseases, from Celsus to Frerichs, and respectively to the present work, will be found fully treated in the following pages ; and on the ground of observation and experience ranging over a period of twenty-five years, it will be demonstrated, I hope, to the satisfaction of everyone that Diabetes, not simply “ glycosuria,55 is curable. The method of cure which I follow individualizes every case ; for the success of the method depends upon the time when the disease first manifested itself ; upon its progress ; upon the sex, age, and condition in life of the patient; further, upon the quality of his habitual food and drink, his power of resistance, the character of his mind and disposition, and upon many other contingent circumstances. It is a source of great satisfaction to me to be thus enabled to supply to the student of medicine a safe guide through the labyrinth of this mysterious and perplexing disease ; and to afford to the practical physician, whose mind is taken up by the duties of his profession, a clear insight into the true nature of Diabetes. But especially do I feel happy at being able to minister comfort to those afflicted with this