Notes of a diabetic case.

  • Rollo, John, -1809.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Notes of a diabetic case. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and in too great an action of the mirfcuiar fibres' of the ftomach, producing faccharine matter, and , a certain defed in the powers of affimilation. And with this opinion we don’t fuppofe the cir- cumftance of food being thrown up unaltered inter- feres, as the great quantity fo frequently eaten pre- vented the ftomach from getting quit of all its contents unchanged, efpecially as it would no doubt ad in preference on thofe matters fuiting its pecu- liar morbid condition. A fpecies of indigeftion however might be allowed, as in this difeafe we fuppofe digeflion to be totally changed, from the refults of the peculiar procefs of the ftomach being fo entirely different from what ufually occurs* Though at the fame time the adion of the ftomach be morbidly increafed, the falutary pro- duds are not formed or applied. Anorexy, as depending on dyfpepfy, has been alledged to confift in a diminution of the mufcular adion of the ftomach, or in a vitiated ftate of the gaftric liquor, or in a deficiency of it. In anorexy,, remedies weakening the tone of the ftomach or fyftem in general always increafe the difeafe ; the inoft fuccefsful treatment being by remedies giving tone