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

  • Schnée, Emil, 1836-1906.
Date:
1889
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    acid in the protoplasm of the tissues and in the organs of the body by intensifying the activity of the muscles. He asks here whether by an. increased introduction of carbonic acid (by the drinking of carbonated waters) we are not really able to com- pensate for a relatively insufficient development of that gas in the tissues ? This question, however, does not seem at all indicated, for practical experi- ence in many cases has deemed it necessary to reject the use of carbonated waters. Habershon employed carbolic acid as early as 1870; Ebstein and Jos. Müller have used it after him. Both found that the sugar disappeared in the same degree in which the introduction of food was reduced. Felizet more recently maintains that by an appli- cation of bromide of potassium he has stopped the irritation of the medulla oblongata, which he re- gards as the cause of diabetes. Forster combined chloride of iron with bromide of potassium. Clemens declares (“ Allg. mediz. Centr. Blatt.,” 1882) that by bromide of arsenic he cured radically severe cases of diabetes [?] Laube administered daily ^ gramme of arsenic (solut. Fowl. 30 gutt.). Likewise Külz and Leh- mann. Lecorche also used it; he showed by his experiments that in the animal on which he operated the glycogen of the liver was diminished in quantity. Kretschy, however, says that he was not successful in the administration of arsenic. Frick experimented with secale cornutum; Hunt