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due to the failure to function of the pancreas; in 

 that case little of the carbohydrates is converted 

 to glycogen, and the excess sugar floods the blood 

 and the urine. We here have a typical case of dia- 

 betes. 



The "Allen treatment" for diabetes. No men- 

 tion of diabetes is possible without referring to the 

 Allen treatment of this disease. Dr. Allen, until 

 recently with the Kockefeller Institute, and now 

 head of the Physiatric Institute, Morristown, N. J., 

 has had such remarkably good results with his 

 "fasting treatments/' that physicians all over the 

 world have adopted his method, and there can be 

 little room for doubt as to its success. Only re- 

 cently (June, 1921) at the Wiesbaden Congress of 

 Internal Medicine, the two foremost authorities on 

 diabetes in Europe, von Noorden and Minkowski, 

 sang its praises. 



The treatment is as follows: 1 A preliminary 

 fast is taken until the urine is free from sugar. 

 This will usually take less than four days. During 

 that time water is allowed and also, to a certain 

 extent, tea and coffee. Following the fast, carbo- 

 hydrate food is gradually added, at first in the form 

 of green vegetables. Coincident with the addition 

 of carbohydrate, or in place of it if the carbohy- 

 drate tolerance is very low, protein is added to the 



*This is described in the Handbook of Therapy, published by 

 the American Medical Association. 



