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

  • Schnée, Emil, 1836-1906.
Date:
1889
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    cod-liver oil, recommended especially by Buchheim and Senator, and lastly, alkaline salts. Alkaline salts. Carlsbad.—Although in some special cases the sodium bicarbonate, which was frequently employed by myself, has proved very effective, the hot alkaline waters of Carlsbad in parti- cular, which were recommended already by Hufeland, have produced most wonderful effects, especially in cases of glycosuria; while the waters of Vichy, Neuenahr (which Vocke recommends on account of the absence of Glauber-salts), Vais, and other alka- line springs containing carbonic acid, only promote the thirst and the secretion of urine, and increase the dryness in the mouth. During winter Seegen pre- scribed daily one bottle of Celestin or Grande grille of Vichy. Schmitz sings the praises of Neuenahr as furnishing a specific remedy against diabetes (see “ Four cases of diabetes cured ” [?], in “ Berl. klin. Wochenschrift,” 1873). The Carlsbad waters certainly do not exercise any specific effect on genuine diabetes, but their effects upon the conditions of the blood-circulation in the liver, upon the raising of the tone of the whole system, upon the transformation of constitutional states and complications, upon increasing the tolerance for amylaceous substances, etc., are so much the more striking. In thousands and thousands of cases they have caused the sugar to disappear from the urine, and have healed glycosuria. Statistical proofs of the efficiency and significance of the Carlsbad waters have been furnished by Anger, Senator, Seegen, M