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5th, That the excessive losses which take place in this 
disease seem to ascertain, in some circumstances, a very 
considerable absorption at the surface of. the body in dia- 
betes. 
6th, That the new relations determined by saccharine 
diabetes between the aliments and the secretions in general, 
and between each of their species in particular, are analogous 
to those which are determined by an excessive evacuation, 
of whatever kind it may be. 
7th, That the treatment prescribed by Rollo, and after- 
wards employed with so much success by our countrymen 
Messrs. Nicholas and Guendeville, and which consists in’a 
regimen purely animal, has the same degree’ of efficacy in 
diabetes as Jesuits’ bark has in intermittent fevers, 
8th, Finally, that the saccharine diabetes produces ‘no 
other change in the state of our organs than a development 
of the digestive and urinary apparatus ; both of which are 
highly active during this disease, the one ia preparing and 
the other in discharging the alimentary substances, 
Pant SECOND. 
Analysis of the Urine evacuated by a Diabetic Patient, from 
the 15th Day of his Admission into the Hotel-Dicu untel 
he was carried into the Infirmary of the School of Medi- 
cine of Paris. 
The above urine came from the patient in an- uncommonly 
large quantity, and exhaled a smell by no means disagreea- 
ble. 
Tt was limpid, yellowish, specifically heavier than water, 
and scarcely reddened the tincture of turnsole ; slightly sac- 
charine, it had at the same time something of the taste of 
sea salt. 
Left to itself at a temperature of 15° (59° Fahr.), it became 
turbid in five or six days; bubbles of carbonic acid were libe- 
rated from it if it was ever so little shaken ; the urinous smell 
it had at first was dispelled ; and it contracted a smell analo- 
gous to that of newly made wine: it yielded alcohol upon 
being distilled, and became strongly acidified on exposure 
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