DIABETES. 
“In three days the diabetic fymptoms were obvioufly — 
nifhed. Every portion of vegetable matter was then omit- 
ted, even the bread. By pee in this regimen ike 
fymptoms were entirely sas lees @ urine returned to its 
natural quantity and quality ; ge pa ey regained his 
ftrength, cay enn ai of his ficfh, and went on actual 
fervice. e courfe of his cure, he one day ate an apple, 
which ‘sea the u and breuzht 
back its faccharize quality. e difea i 
been but of feven cue ‘duration; when the plan of cure 
was begun. 
In Dr. Rollo’s fecond cafe, the difeafe was of at lea 
three years ftanding ; the animal diet protien ate 
alleviation of the a dar during the fhort time that it 
having relinquifhed it, the patient 
died. 
an 
he fa@ts; wh o has ftated from his own 
Suen, communicated to him by other 
praCtitioners, it eatace be doabted that the animal diet hasa 
great influence on the fymptoms of diabetes, and has contri- 
buted more directly and creually to its alleviation, than any 
and that where the plan is profe- 
mode of cure is fo contrary to the inclinations 
ae fick, a it is almoft impoflible to prevail upon them to 
perfevere in its ufe. The defire for vegetable matters in fome 
fhape or other feems to be almott irrefiftible. Though per- 
feétly aware of the efficacy of the regimen, fays Dr. Rollo, 
yet they commonly tre{pafs, concealing what they feel as a 
again uae es. hey exprefs a regret, 
be difcovered, however naufeous, 
which would fuperfede the neceffity of any reftri€tion in 
diet. 
When, during the ufe of the animal diet, the urine has 
Toft its faccharine quality, and at the fame time its quantity 
petite remaining keen, i 
at the fame time loathes = and the appetite is loft. 
At this time the tongue and gums will be found to have loft 
their florid > our, and to have become allid. 
When fuch a ftate carb exercife is to be enjoined, and 
a gradual ieee to the u bread, and of thofe vegetables 
od drinks which are she leaft likely to furnifh faccharine 
matter, or to become acid in the ftomach, with the occafional 
€ Should this period of the difeafe be 
the confinement and animal food rigidly 
perfevered i in, {curvy, or fomething akin to it, might be pro- 
duc The vegetable fubftances, which have appeared to 
be the fafeft, in the change from the animal diet, are broccoli, 
{pinage, sere cabbage, and lettuce. Thefe do not 
feem to furnifh agers when prudently ufed, in the diabetic 
ftomach, meee a proper adoption of the animal diet. But 
when thefe vegetables have been fafely taken, a return to a 
very {mall quantity of bread bas reproduced the faecharine 
matter in the urine, and the general fymptoms of diftrefs, as 
thirft, ke. The urine sey at this périod, be very fre- 
uently examined, and on any appearance of a return of the 
diabetic fate of it, the animal diet mult be again ftriGly 
renewed, frequent examination of the urine at all times 
will afford the bt teft of the ftate of the diforder, ard . the 
nature of the treatment. whic ay be required. oO 
tis to be rem narieed, however, that in fom a. ihe 
animal diet has fucceeded in changing the dition of the 
onditio 
= whuilft the emaciation, and the eflential contitutional 
ondition have remaincd. And it is the page ae n of 2 very 
Pestiseas phyfician, that he never faw med czfe o 
diabetes, ‘* wherein there was not fome confiderable diforder 
of the conflitution, or a defect of wey Hog effential to life.” 
a on Dilediers in London, p. 1 
e preceding obfervation ae he to the common form of 
the difeate, the diabetes mellitus, D. infipidus, where 
the difeafe confifls merely in a pr e nat 
urine, from a morbidly increafed aio the fecreting 
veffels of the kidneys, the prognofis is more favourable, 
The latter form of the diforder appears to have been occa 
fionally produced by the ftimulus of a calculus in the k:dne 
at other times without any obvious cavfe of fRimulation ia 
that organ. ‘The indications in the D. infipidus, will be, to 
leffen the determination of blood to the kidneys, by 1 increafing 
the perf{piration by diaphoretic medicine, warm-bath, &c.3. 
to avoid thofe articles of diet and drink, which have a parti- 
cular difpofition to excite the aétion of the kidneys, as much 
warm liquor, fuch as tea, punch, &c.; and to ftrengthen 
the fyftem at large by the various tonic medicines, bark, 
iteel, bitters, &c. The altringent medicines are particularly 
indicated in this form of the difeafe, where the gee - 
a natural — 1s ace to be attempt ted. Hence 
alum or alum 
of the region of the kidneys, as biifters, or iffues in the loins, 
ay e alfo tried, as means of diverting the courfe of the 
fluids ia the kidneys. 
IABETES, OF ree a Staling, in Farriery, a difeafe of 
i d 0 
horfes which, at its commencement, admits of an eafy cure 5 
but which often sore: very obitinate, and even incurable. 
Ai firft the complaint confifts merely in an i fecre« 
hi 
; his appetite is diminifhed, and 
pulfe is quickened ; he 18 ’ generally hide-bound, and aie 
ally lofes fleth and tre th. Some have recommended lime- 
us, that, in recent cafes, he adminiftered with fuccefs the 
following ball; wiz. opium, 1 dram, powdered ginger, 2 dr., 
and yellow Penivien bark, 4 oz., formed into a ball with 
fyrup, for one dofe. If this remedy fhould fail, he recom- 
mends one of the following formule: 1. Emetic tartar, 2 dr., 
opium, 1 dr. made into a ball for one dofe: 2. Salt of hartf. 
horn, 2 dr., opium, § 3 dr., powdered ginger, 1 dr., ee 
powder, 3 3 dr. formed into a ball for one dofe: 3. Salt of 
fteel, $ oz., myrrh, 2 dr-, gi 
one dofe: 4. Powdered Columbo-root, 3 dr., cafcarilla, 2 dr., 
falt of feel, 2 Zt ae prepared kaii, 15 dr., and tintureof opium, 
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