Treatment of diabetes by means of water charged with oxygen under pressure / by Dr. Albert Leblond.

  • Leblond, Albert.
Date:
[©1887?]
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    (6J TREATMENT OF DIABETES BY MEANS OF WATER CHARGED WITH OXYGEN UNDER PRESSURE. By Dr. ALBERT LEBLOND, Of the St. Lazare Hospital, Paris. a. My intention in bringing the facts which I have gathered before the Medical Society of Paris is not to give a lecture on the nature and origin of Diabetes, as this would lead me too far. I intend merely to communicate a certain number of cases in which I have succeeded in obtaining complete eradication of glycosuria, and others in which I have noticed a diminution of glycosis, in such proportions that I have not the least doubt of the efficacy of the means which I am about to propose, and which I believe are destined to swell the ranks of the oxydizing agents employed in glycosuria. The treatment has consisted in making the patients take water charged with pure oxygen. The water is drunk at meals with wine, and the quantity absorbed is about one pint and three-quarters every 24 hours. As the water is tasteless, the patients experience no difficulty in taking it. The water which I have used is prepared by Messrs. Brin & Co., and is bottled in syphons. I insist upon prescribing water oxygenated by Messrs. Brin, because this water differs essentially from the chemical preparation known in laboratories as oxygenated water. Messrs. Brins' water is ordinary water, in which pure oxygen is dissolved by compression. As the tendency of the gas is to disengage itself from the water as soon as the latter is syphoned into a glass, it is advisable to drink the liquid very rapidly, so as to absorb the greatest possible quantity 6f oxygen. I have observed in the different analyses of urine which have been submitted to me a notable augmentation of eliminated alcaline and earthly phosphates. This loss of staminal elements has led me to restore to the frame part of these elements, and to that effect I have prescribed to most of my patients the use of a solution of biphosphate of lime.