Diabetes mellitus: its history, chemistry, anatomy, pathology, physiology, and treatment : Illustrated with woodcuts, and cases successfully treated / By William Morgan, M.D.

  • Morgan, William.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Diabetes mellitus: its history, chemistry, anatomy, pathology, physiology, and treatment : Illustrated with woodcuts, and cases successfully treated / By William Morgan, 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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    he has been able to trace attacks very nearly to their origin, by ascertaining the time when the urine WAS LAST OBSERVED TO BE TURBID—an index worth remembering. The earliest symptoms known, by which the development of Diabetes may be recognised, may be set down as follows:— A patient so afflicted, complains of an indefinable general indisposition, with debility, or prostration of muscular power as well as nervous energy ; he feels fatigued or even exhausted after moderate exertion, and complains of listlessness, and disinclination for either bodily or mental exertion. He remains in bed longer than usual, is disinclined to rise, and his friends, in their ignorance, are kindly disposed to call him lazy and that he shirks his daily task. He complains of numbness and loss of sensation over the outer and anterior surface of the thighs ; and of a dull aching pain in the loins, which is of frequent occurrence. He complains of dimness of vision, and an inability to read; and occasionally there is dys- pepsia, for which the disease is, at this period, often mistaken. At this early development of the disease, there is not as a rule much THIRST, but the mouth feels CLAMMY and frothy, more especially during conversation. The skin is not at this stage particu- larly dry, neither is the urine particularly increased in quantity, which ranges from three to six pints in the twenty-four hours, and is of a pale straw- colour, transparent, and does not throw down any depQsit on cooling. Dr. Prout observes, as the result