DIABETES. 
degrees of fh difeafe is Maen as to voracioufnefs and 
craving, w in the acute it is more ftead n general 
the urine is oa only pares but of an odorous fmell, ae 
pirent, of a light ftraw colour, of a {weetifh tatle, and 
yielding, by evaporation, a igs arine meet refembling 
t molaffes. Sometimes, how cel 
n evaporation; which, hike iy {weet and 
faccharine fubftances, is capable of undergoir i 
tati d has every aie quality of 
Beas — ‘The quantity of urine difcharged is ge- 
wever, , gre eater than the quantity of liquid taken, 
paffed from 12 to 15 pints of urine during os hours. When 
he drank 10 pints, he pafle wh rank 12 pints 
he pafled 14 or 155 hat his urine exc ica d his drink 
ot 
aad by two pints.” His other i pea Murray, paffed 
cefs of urine over his drink of 7 or 8 ae in the 24 
“hours: ‘6 when he drank 4s he paffed 32 pints ay when 
he drank 3, he paffed 10 pints.””_ The af ies in feveral 
cafes, has exceeded the whole ingefta, folid and liquid; and 
in general there is a daily diminution of weight, fo that the 
urine, together with the other difcharges, generally exceeds 
we a: aes ingefta. This lofs of weight was — 
r two cafes, publifhed by Dr. Rollo, 
weighiog the: patieut daily. d e obferves, ‘ith 
refpeét to his patient, Murray, that his folid. re amounted 
nearly to the excefs of ie urine aria igs drink. But im- 
menfe difcharges of u e men y fome authors; 
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quality ; hence, writers have thou 
ie diftinGiion by peculiar terms; this form of the difeafe 
ing denominated diabetes infipidus; the former D. mel-- 
Tos, from the honey-like flavour of the urine. A ref{pect- 
able teacher in London, confidering eae two forms or the 
dileafe as altogether aoe in their nature, has propofed w 
y different generic ‘idles s, and to call the 
former polyuria deblitans, and the latter melituria tabifica, 
whi sy xprefs the nature and tendency of the 
e 
of idio- 
Symptoms were fufpended during an attack of pneumonia, 
” difeafe of the kidnies . a lien 
which fupervened ; ls in the other during that of an in- 
sa tisag fore t 
nee is feaioned in the writings of phyficians 
sf ainst all a For if it has not sae noted by Hip- 
pocrates or Pro [ca A-pinus, it has occupied the attention 
hit soe AGunuarims, Areteus, Actus, Paulus AEgi- 
eta, Avice Galen, &c. Areteus has given a long 
and rial hitory . the Aifeafe and ee out the profufe 
difcharze of urine, the emaciation and debi.ity, the inex- 
tinguihable thirty yet ‘he drink not equalling the urine in 
ceotaiek arched fkin, &c. all belonging to true dia- 
etes Ga €0 ae that he had fern but two cafes o 
liquids, unchanged in 
many cafes of bulimous os a great thief, it is pros 
bable that he had feen a greater number, in which the 
urinous affe&tion had been overlooked 
It is fingular, however, that the peculiar condition o at he 
urine was unnoticed, as characteriltic “ ae dife meen till our 
out its facchar 
countryman r. Willis, pointed tafte ; 
neither the yaniee nor the , in oe chee: parent 
of Europe, obferved it, till they were directed to it by 
the Enghth; toe the diabetes mellitus is called by Sau- 
vages D. anglicus 
y long before the time of Willis. 
cafe in which a julepum rofaceum w 
affirms that oe urine had the fame colour and fmell as the 
julep ; and that fome of the attendants who chofe to tafte it, 
faid that there was no change inthe flavour. (De Rat. Curand. 
Partic. &c. lib. x. cap. And Hercules Saxonia men- 
ean one {pecies of diabetes, which he aa a oo 
diabetes, eft ange rei potulente prorfus utate 
odore; colore, et /apore, per vias loti.” Bae like his ed 
Trincavella, he attributed the {weet {mell, colour, and tafte 
f the urine, he {fweetened ptifan which the patient had 
babes oo ccharine beverage and di he satire 
rally the practice 
prefcribe, in moft difeafes, ptifans {weetened with honies or 
fyrups, it is not to be wondered at, that Willis was the firft 
phyfician who pofitively noticed the honey-like taite of the 
urine in true diabetes, as arifing from a change whic 
drink had 
of th 
Randiog it had previou 
iy been pointed out by Wi 
The quan 
tity of faccharine matter in ah urine ~~ in fome 
with a quantity 
. In the a yee related by 
Dr. Home, the urine was evaporated by Dr. Black; Ar- 
tbur’s urine u brown face 
when he made fifteen pints of urine. Dr. Home obferve 
that this is a wonderful proportion of fugar to t uid ¢. 
fince a pound of afs’s milk affords only half an ounce of fu- 
ar Me. 
eed is related Rollo, was calculated 
at een ee ounces in the twenty-four hou 
This fugar-making procefs, then, conte: the ie ae 
part of the difeafe; it has been the fubje&t of much en 
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