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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    doubtful. However, the fuggefted nature of the difeafe and the appropriated treatment, have by the refult become fo highly fatisfaclory, that it was thought expedient to make them known to thole who were likely to meet with the fame complaint, in order that a further trial might be made with- out any lofs of time, and to folicit the refult of fuch trials. On our part promifing an account of the final termination of the prefent cafe, or any further trials we may have an opportunity of pro- fee u ting. We beg leave here to add, that fhould another cafe of Diabetes fimilar to this again occur, we would try confinement and animal food only, and if thefe did not fucceed, gradually adopt the other parts of the treatment purfued in the prefent cafe. We would commence, where the general a£Hon was flrong, by blood-letting, but in every inftance by an emetic and a dofe of caftor oil. In the prefent cafe we gave ipecacuan only; but perhaps the tar- tarifed antirqony might be found preferable, as it induces a greater degree of naufea, and its debili- tating efiefts probably continue longer. From the narcotic, independent of any other efFefls of the hepatifed ammenia on this difeafe, and of the quiet