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Rollo, there was an obvious hereditary difpofition to the dif- 
eafe, which attacked individuals of fame, as well -as of 
diff-rent generations, in the fame family. 
Diffe&-on has not contributed in any degree to elucidate 
the nature of diabetes. The liver bas been frequently found 
ina perfeCtly found flate, contrary to the obfervation of Dr, 
ead; and often vo sale free could be detected in any 
organ of the bo he kidneys have generally been found 
enlarged, efpeciall y the tubular here ae portion, and fofter 
than natu 
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two othe ofeffor Rother ford, in the third 
number of the Ed: inburgh Medical a sags 
Another by Dr. Bailhe, Tranflations of a Society 
Improvement of Medicaland Chirurgical Knowledge, vo). ii.) 
In this ftate of uncertainty mn regard to the feat and nature 
of the difea/e, the cure of diabetes cannot be directed with 
any certainty of fuccefs, or upon the rational principle of 
removing the proximate caufe. All thofe who have feen the 
difeafe, agree in pronouncing it difficult of cure, efpecially if 
the patient is old, if it arofe from habitual drinking, or if it 
has been of long ftanding ; and various medicines have been 
reforted to, according to the various opinions of the praéti- 
iba or as the failure of preceding remedies fuggelted a 
ange. Many of thefe have aioe faid ei 
individual inftances; but in the different practic 
tioners, they have a often failed gelseaavdy, fae their 
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e fu eta that, by reftoring the fun€tion of 
perfpiration, the un Gale ereriaatiaa to the ki idneys would 
fudorific 
be diminifhed have hence recommended me- 
dicines, as cn warm bath, war lothing, fri€tion with 
el, I nitance, the warm bath was faid to have 
cured the difeafe, under the direGtion of a erne 
(See London Medical Journal for 1790.) And Dr. Mac 
Cormick, of Aatrim, mentions two cafes of diabetes, which 
were cured by the continued ule of large dofes of Dover’s 
powder at bed-time. {See Duncan’s Medical Commentaries 
for 1783.) But in many other cafes, fuch medicines have 
failed altogether to give relief. In thofe treated by Dr. 
the kidneys was not diminifhed. 
no effect on the difeafe, nor have ftimul one br diages to act 
a the lax kidneys, as {uggefted by ane, been of 
ufe. He recommended, upon this See the tincture 
of Lee a medicine which has no t been obferved to 
have any efficacy in this complaint. - 
alum-whey, 
theoretical principles ino, and catechu, in co 
fiderable dofes, but pencil without fuccefs, Dr. Fother- 
gi:l’s ie enti al . to have recovered, after taking alume 
whey, iime-wa d fudorifics, nla and rhubarb, an 
fae a blilter appl over the fac (M bfervat. 
and: ee vol. i And Mo | red a p t bya 
milk diet, an sian eit julep, and eleCtuaries of bole, and 
Vonic and corroborant medicines have 
been among the remedies of this clafs, that have been ufed ; 
the 
and thefe, ij ke others, in a few individual inftances, have 
been faid to remove the fymptoms; more frequently, as 
n Dr nes cafes, and others, they a fed I 
cafes of confirmed diabetes, by a combination of cinchona 
with uva urfi and opium ; the fuccefs of which te ae 0 
great as to prevent him from trying Dr. 
(Ferriar’s Effay on aes See aifo his Metical Hh eae 
and Reflections, vol. 
It is obvious, that st the medicines which have been em- 
ployed for the cure of diabetes 
of cafes, altogether vnfaceeail 3; nor can a 
rare as -— ly alee which have been recorded as 
or iti many inftarces, where the 
ee eyes etpeei aay the morbid quantity of urine 
have been fufpended, they have neverthelefs {peedily returned, 
where the remedies were omitted, and ultimately proved fatal. 
The moft fuccefsful plan a cia that has yet been de- 
vifed, we have now to mention. 
Upon the fuppofition ae the difeafe eae deen in 
a defect of the power of affimilation, whence th mal- 
ized, chylous juices, were fuffered to pafs o off mn dee ie 
ftate ; it was long ago fuggetted by the fagacity of Syden- 
ham, that the diabetic patient ought to eat meats of rer 
digeftion, fuch as veal, mutton, and the like, and to abftai 
from all i and fruit whatever. (See his Epittle ~ 
Dr. Brady.) Dr. Home again fuggefted the fame expedient, 
d mentions its failure as a reafon for beara the c 
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a Seg or ath alarors organs, in peu the faccharine 
he only pra@ticable mode of preventing its formation, 
aoe abftraGtion of the pabulum of this matter, 7. ¢. of all 
vegetable fubftances from the diet. 
remove the means of forming faecharine matter, it is not un- 
likely that we may remove the morbid action, in the courfe of 
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ment, withan entire abftinence from every kind of vepetable 
fubRance, afforded the general means, which might perhaps 
be aided by the ufe of fuch medicines as feem to moft 
remote from any thing like a vegetable, acefcent, or feeds 
rine quality; as fulphur, leer potafs, or ammonia, 
alkalies alone, and calcareous and teftaceous fb ncen: The 
fuccefs of the exclufively animal diet was {peedy and — in 
the cafe of captain Meredith, related by Dr. Rollo; and in 
his fecond cafe decided bevel accrued from its ufe, ‘while it 
was perfevered in. eae lan with which captain M. com- 
menced was the follow: 
reakfaft.—One ale a S half pint of milk, and au a pint 
of lime gas mixed together, and bread and butte 
. Noon.—Plain black puddings, made of blood and fuet 
only. 
ner.—Grame or old meats, which have been long kept, 
and. as a as the ftomach m may bear, fat and rancid old meats, 
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The fame as breakfatt. 
Secondly. A. drachm of kali pieheiatia to be diffolved 
in four quarts of water, ages Oe n boiled, and to be 
ufed for daily drink. No other pe id eatable or 
drinkable, to be ufed than el has been ftated 
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