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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    is hidden in such obscurity. Some attribute it to the nervous system; others to a change in the blood corpuscles. Dr. B. found fatty degeneration of the arteries of the brain a cause; likewise disease of the abdomen. Diabetes Mellitus commits sad havoc amongst that class of men and women who put undue pressure upon the normal capabilities of the thinking principles of the brain, known as a fagged brain. For this reason it is of frequent occurrence among literary men, clergymen, arithmeticians, mathematicians, cashiers, and those who have embarked in the WEAR and TEAR, and constant anxiety, of a city or com- mercial life. Diabetes has been known to follow sudden mental shocks, grief, or joy; and Rayer mentions a casein which the disease succeeded a violent paroxysm of rage. Prout refers the disease, in some instances, to the continued exposure to cold and moisture; to drinking cold fluids when the body is over-heated; to the suppression of an habitual perspiration; and to a gouty or rheumatic diathesis. Sydenham and Senac, to violent horse exercise; Cheselden and Latham, to chronic abscesses and carbuncles; Frank, to the drying up of chronic eruptions, exanthems, leucorrhoea, or the suppression of haemorrhages; Boer- haave, to the abuse of diuretics and diluents; Auten- reith, to acids and acidulous fluids; Ploucquet, to falls and injuries on the back, loins, and hips; and Bennewitz, in 1828, related the case of a female who G