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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    ever to have been strong; for as one com- monly expresses it, I should have thought him old for his particular period of life. The first letter is dated from his residence in the country, June Sth^ 1806, and is as follows:— In ready and grateful compliance with your kind wish, I sit down to inform you that I have every reason to think I am in a state of progressive, though but of slow amendment; my fever, lam sometimes in- clined to hope, has entirely left me, at others I find accidentally my tongue rather Avhite, though I feel no thirst, and little or no dryness on my palate: my urine, I think, altogether changed for the bettei', and very seldom, if ever, more in quantity than it perhaps is naturally to be expected from the proportion of both water and milk that I in general drink, I have adhered hitherto most rigidly to the system of living you