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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    uniformly diflended with the peculiar gas we wifh to employ. But the oxygenated muriatic gas is fimply ap- plied by moving the end of the glafs tube over the lore and without the bladder, as this gas can only be applied for a moment or two; indeed in this way it produces the effects delired, namely, fome chemical decompofition, and a change of action in the part; for if longer continued it adts \ as a cauftic and forms a fiough. The notes of the cafe of diabetes, the effects of hepatifed ammonia in the cafe of irritability, and its favourable tendency in a pectoral complaint, with the good effects of different gafes externally applied to fores in this Hofpital, exhibit fadts in fupport of the application of pneumatic chemiftry to medicine. For example, ift. Our cafe of diabetic difeafe may be faid to have depended on a fingular oxy- genated (late of the fyftem, formed by a peculiar condition of the ftomach, peculiar combinations in it, and perhaps partly maintained afterwards by a certain condition of Ikin and lungs* Hence the obvious