34 DIABETES MELLITUS. 



became more violent, and one day he picked up a bit of an 

 old shoe and suddenly swallowed it; some hours later the 

 debris of this body was rejected by emesis, but the vomiting 

 continued, accompanied by bloody stools, and some days 

 afterwards the creature died. No autopsy was made. This 

 case proves that amylaceous articles of diet are not necessary 

 to the development of diabetes mellitus, although such agents 

 have been found in the human subject to aggravate the dis- 

 ease. That the whole diet was animal there can be no doubt, 

 as the dog was under the immediate care of M. Leblanc. 



The next case occurred in a monkey, and continued for 

 the space of six months, when it ended in death. It was fed 

 on all manner of aliments, bread, biscuits, vegetables, fat 

 broths, milk, flesh, and confections. He drank every instant 

 if permitted, and passed large quantities of urine, which was 

 repeatedly anlysed by M. Poggiale, Member of the Academy 

 of Medicine, and Professor of Chemistry at Val-de-Grace, 

 and found to contain sugar in large amount. 



The treatment consisted in giving bicarbonate of soda 

 and the water of Vichy. The diet was flesh, fat broth, and 

 gluten bread. Linseed decoction was prescribed, but beside 

 this the animal drank large quantities of pure water. This, 

 like the former case, was unsatisfactory, the creature being 

 alternately better and worse, and succumbing at the end of 

 six months. 



ISCHUKIA DYSUEIA STEANGUEY SUPPEESSION 



OF UEINE. 



The several conditions I here group together are all cha- 

 racterised by the checked discharge of urine. This may con- 

 sist in suppressed secretion ischuria; in the painful dis- 

 charge of a little urine dysuria ; and lastly, in the passage 

 of urine in drops strangury. 



