Diabetes Mellitus

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Excerpt from Diabetes Mellitus: An Essay to Which Was Awarded the First Prize of the Boylston Medical Society for 1868In the second class abnormally saccharine urine is a perma nent symptom, combined with thirst, emaciation and serious debility. Roberts says, To this class alone is the term dia betes at all applicable. Still another. Class is embraced under the second group, in which sugar is present in the urine, sometimes abundantly, sometimes scantily, sometimes persist ently, sometimes intermittently, always with a weakly condition of health, but without thirst or conspicuous emaciation, often, indeed, with corpulence, without any, or only slight, increase in the quantity of urine, and without that fixed tendency to death which stamps the first group.This subdivision of the second class, that of the milder type of the disease, comprises so great a variety of forms that a distinct class can hardly be recognized. It is exceedingly difficult to draw the line between the mild and serious forms of Diabetes mellitus, so closely interwoven are their symp toms. We cannot prove by any means that the persistent is but a further development of the temporary form, nor the more that if we cure a case of what seems a serious type of persistent Diabetes, that it may not be a mild type of the same affection with exaggerated symptoms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.