The treatment of diabetes / by Anthony Bassler.

  • Bassler, Anthony, 1874-
Date:
1912
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Credit: The treatment of diabetes / by Anthony Bassler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V / A Summary of Our Present Knowledge. The treatment of cases of diabetes mellitus is practically uniform throughout all, but the indi- vidual differences are important in the way of re- sults. I have always considered that the dietetic and hygienic treatments comprise essentially the important phases of the therapy in this disorder. Although the physician has been reaching for med- ical methods of treatment, and many kinds of treat- ment have been vaunted only to be discarded, the fact remains that the developments in the subject of practical worth have come along dietetic and hygienic rather than drug lines. Before these are taken up, however, it would be well to remember that there are families in which there is a predispo- sition toward diabetes, and, sometimes in the same families, toward obesity also. These individuals possess a lowered ability to utilize carbohydrates, and thus it is well to take von Noorden’s advice to restrict the carbohydrates in these families, for it is possible in that way that a number of cases of dia- betes would be warded off. It may be stated as a practical fact that the more intelligent and self con- trolled the patient, the better is the result of the treatment of this disease. In those past middle life in whom the condition is essentially chronic (it be- ing well known that in the young it runs a more acute course and is usually fatal in a short time), the fact that sugar is found in the urine does not possess the degree of prognostic significance to the •Presentation of the subject at the People’s Hospital Medical Board Meeting, June it, 1912. Copyright, 1912, by A. R. Elliott Publishing Company.