On the relation between diabetes and food and its application to the treatment of the disease / by Arthur Scott Donkin.

Date:
1875
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Credit: On the relation between diabetes and food and its application to the treatment of the disease / by Arthur Scott Donkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    milated in diabetes, permits of a great revo- lution and advance in the dietetic treatment of the disease, namely, that notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by Bouchardat, Dr. Pavy, and their followers, a saccharine principle can be taken in large quantities by diabetics, not only with impunity but with great benefit. Because there can be no doubt that a proper admixture of starch or some form of sugar in the food is absolutely essential to the maintenance of health in civilised life, and that the complete withdrawal of these from the diet prescribed in diabetes must be highly injxu-ious. It must be remembered too that lactose in the food of the infant is the analogue of the vegetable starchy and saccharine compounds con- sumed in more advanced life.