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creases in continued ingestion, in consequence of which little 

 can be promised for these types of carbohydrate as a dia- 

 betic food. 80 Nevertheless "inulin treatment" has recently 

 been strongly recommended again. 81 



The desirability of discovering some form of harmless 

 carbohydrate for diabetics has led to many experiments in 

 this line. 82 Thus it is said that a hemicellulose preparation 

 made from agar-agar, which yields principally galactose on 

 hydrolysis, has proved useful in continuous administration 

 of diabetics, 83 although galactose occasions an increase of 

 dextrose in the urine in diabetic animals. 84 From Iceland 

 moss, which contains dextrine-like substances, hemicelluloses 

 and pentosans, after modifying its bitter materials by mix- 

 ing with proteins, a bread has been baked. 85 Aleuronat bread 

 has been used as a carbohydrate-poor bread-substitute; it 

 is prepared from a mixture of ordinary flour with aleuronat 

 meal which is rich in protein but poor in carbohydrate. 



Oat-Treatments. C. v. Noorden's observation as to the 

 influence of "oat-meal teatment" in diabetes is interesting 

 and of practical importance. The method presents the 

 superficial paradox that many severe cases of diabetes pass 

 less sugar in the urine when given considerable amounts of 

 oat-meal than when kept on the strictest diet. 86 Most 

 authors who have tried von Noorden's suggestion have been 

 forced to acknowledge that the treatment in certain cases 

 is followed by a diminution of the glycosuria and acidosis 

 and by an increased tolerance for carbohydrates. 87 It is 



80 Of. F. Umber, Lehrb. der Ernahr., p. 201, 1909. 



81 H. Strauss (Berlin), Berl. klin. Wochenschr., 1912, 1912. 



82 Cf. A. Magnus-Levy, Berl. klin. Wochenschr., 1910, 233. 



83 A. Schmidt and H. Lohrisch (Halle), Deutseh. med. Wochenschr., 1908, 

 2012. 



84 W. Brasch, Zeitschr. f. Biol., 50, 113, 1908. 



88 E. Poulsson, Festschr. f. O. Hammersten, Wiesbaden, 1906; cited in 

 Centralbl. f. Physiol., 21, 196, 1907. 



86 C. v. Noorden, Berlin klin. Wochenschr., 1903, 817. 



87 Cf . Literature : C. v. Noorden, Handb. d. Pathol. d. Stoffwecte., 2d ed., 

 2, 63, 1907, and F. Umber, Lehrb. d. Ernahr., pp. 208-210, 1909; Klotz (Strass- 

 burg), Zeitschr. f. exper. Pathol., 8, 601, 1911. 



