THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XII, No. 134.] FEBRUARY 1839. tNew Series, No. 74. 
DIABETES IN HORSES. 
By Professor STEWART, of Glasgow. 
I HAVE never met with any faithful account of diabetes, at least 
as it has occurred in my own practice. It is very common here, 
and I dare say is not wanting elsewhere. Having been completely 
successful in the mode of treatment which I adopted a few years 
ago, and which differs from that which is supposed to be the best, 
I may venture to make a few remarks upon the disease. 
I think it was about the beginning of 1835 that I first began to 
understand the kinds and treatment of diabetes. Before that time 
I lost several patients by it. Subsequent experience shewed that 
the treatment was not good. I found that there exists two, kinds 
of diabetes ; and that the remedies which invariably performed a 
cure in one kind, as invariably did mischief in the other. Many 
patients, I regret to say, were lost before this discovery was made ; 
but discoveries are of little use if they avert no evil. 
KINDS OF DIABETES. 
There are two kinds of diabetes. The symptoms are different ; 
and the treatment, to be successful, must be different too. In the 
one kind there is no fever, nor, so far as I can find, any local in- 
flammation : this I would term simple diabetes. ’ In the other kind 
there are fever and bronchitis : this I would denominate febrile, or 
bronchitic, diabetes. 
I am not sure that the two* are produced by different causes; 
nor can I tell that the one may not occasionally assume the same 
symptoms, and then require the same treatment as the other. It 
may therefore be objected, that I speak of the same disease in dif- 
ferent stages, rather than of the same disease in different forms. In 
practice it matters nothing which way we regard the distinction : 
either will do. At present we will not argue this matter. 
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