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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    sugar, namely, the carbohydrates, were severely interdicted. This rule was a standard for many years, and in the majority of patients it answered fairly well. In recent years, it became noticeable to clinicians that certain patients upon this “stand- ard diet” failed in health, lost strength, became edematous, etc. As a consequence, certain clini- cians, after experimenting with restricting the diet still more, only to have the patients become worse, adopted the opposite process of adding some carbo- hydrate to the diet with marked benefit to the pa- tient. The controversy then raged among the clini- cians, the elimination carbohydrate men taking the stand that carbohydrate was contraindicated. Their position being right in the main, but wrong in the entirety of the subject, they lost ground, as time went on, to the more modern view, namely, to give carbohydrates to the tolerance of the patient. Tak- ing cases as they occur in practice, the best plan to follow is to place them upon the following diet, which represents high protein and almost no starch or sugar substance: PROTEIN, LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET. Breakfast: Coffee with one and one half ounce cream. Two eggs cooked with half ounce butter. One ounce bacon. Luncheon : Two eggs. One ounce bacon. Two ounces lamb chops (i), ham (2), beef- steak (3), chicken (4), or fish (g)> broiled with half ounce butter. Vegetables from list with half ounce butter. Six ounces wine or one ounce whiskey. Afternoon tea with half ounce cream. Dinner : Any clear soup. One quarter pound roast pork (5), beef (4), mutton (3), turkey (2), chicken (1), or lamb (1). Vegetables from list with half ou'nce butter. .Salads with half ounce oil in dressing. One ounce cream cheese. Six ounces wine or one ounce whiskey. Demi tasse of coffee. Each dav select meats with same number.