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fected as by 

 evaluations in 

 general. 



Dr. R olio's 

 treatment in- 

 fallible. 



Does not alter 

 thestateof the 

 organs. 



ANALYSIS OF DIABETIC tJRiNE. 



diabetes between the food and the secretions in general, and 

 between their several kinds in particular, are analogous to 

 those occasioned by any evacuation iu excess, whatever its 

 nature may be. 



7. That the mode of treatment recommended by Dr. 

 Rollo, and since so successfully employed by our conntry- 

 men, Messrs. Nicolas and Quendeville, and which consists 

 especially in a purely animal diet, is as effectual as the 

 bark in intermittent fevers. 



8. Lastly, that the saccharine diabetes produces x\o change 

 in the state of the organs, but an exertion of the digestive 

 and urinary organs, both of which are in a state of great 

 activity during this disease, one to prepare and the other to 

 expend the materials of nutrition. 



Analysis of the Part II. Analysis of the urine of a diabetic patient frorni 

 """**• the fifteenth day after his adtnission into th^ Hotel Diejiy 



till he left that place for the hospital of the Medical 



School. 



Its appearance 



Change by 

 keeping. 



3:)istillec[. 



This urine, very remarkable for the largeness of its qua;n- 

 tity, emitted a smell, that was not disagreeable. It was 

 limpid, perceptibly yellow, of greater specific gravity than 

 water, and scarcely reddened infusion of litmus. Its taste 

 was slightly saccharine, and at the same time it had some- 

 thing of that of common salt. 



Left to itself at the temperature of 15° [59° F.], it be- 

 came turbid in five or six days : bubbles of caibonic acid 

 gas were disengaged on the slightest agitation : the urinous 

 smell it had at first was gone, and it had acquired a smell 

 resembling that of newly made wine: it likewise afforded 

 alcohol by distillation, and became very sour by exposui^e 

 t^ the air, so that it exhibited in a slight degree all the 

 marks of a spirituous fermentation. 



Distilled in a retort, or evaporated in a capsule, the phe- 

 nomena it exhibited were the same. It did not become tur- 

 bid, gradually thickened, and was reduced to a sirup, which 

 sometimes amounted to a seventeenth, sometimes to a twen- 

 tieth, and never to less than a thirtieth of its weight. From 

 %he urine we examined we thus obtained near thirty pounds 

 of sirup, which on copling always dried into a mass, cotn- 



