Facts and opinions concerning diabetes / by John Latham, M.D.

  • Latham, John, 1761-1843.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Facts and opinions concerning diabetes / by John Latham, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    place, usually terminates in atrophy and the consequent death of the patient: the re- laxed condition of the organs of perspira- tion admits also of a similar argument, which will continue until the patient sinks into an incurable marasmus, unless either the astrictive power which may be em- ployed, should in some measure correct the relaxation, or unless (what is more ratio- nally to be attempted) the state of the fluids, which provoke by their acquired ad- mixtures such preternaturally increased dis- charges by the skin, should be so altered as to be rendered less stimulating. Although there be no similarity between the saliva and the urine, one being subser- vient to nutrition, and the other excrementi- tious, yet I would assert, that the flux of saliva, unless it be retained in the body for its proper purposes, will as certainly pro- duce atrophy as a flux of urine evacuated