Facts and opinions concerning diabetes / by John Latham, M.D.

  • Latham, John, 1761-1843.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Facts and opinions concerning diabetes / by John Latham, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    any perception of it as there is of canine appetite: it is a reasonable supposition, therefore, that it begins by slight de- grees, and becoming greater, first draws the serum of the blood from the veins with- out our being sensible of it; and when it shall have attracted all this, and discovers the blood in the veins to be deprived of such moisture, that the vessels thus dried attract moisture again from the liver, and the liver in turn that from the intestines and the stomachs and when the veins at the orifice of the stomach become dry, that the man then grows eager for drink, and is sensible of his condition, and that then having satisfied his thirst, the veins which communicate between the liver and the stomach being parched up, instantly imbibe all the liquor with avidity, and from them the rest in succession, until it is conveyed to the kidnies: for it hath been shewn in