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Translations and Beviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
Bv W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Annates de Medecine Feterinaire, Bruxelles, Aug., 1861. 
SACCHARINE DIABETES IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS, CONSIDER. 
ING THE RELATION OF THIS MALADY WITH THE AF¬ 
FECTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND THE RE-AB¬ 
SORPTION OF FAT. 
By M. Thiernesse, Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine. 
The existence of sugar in the urine of animals affected 
with diabetes has not been acknowledged by veterinary 
surgeons up to the present time. The belief, indeed, was 
that this affection exclusively belonged to the human species. 
The form of diabetes which had been observed and described 
by the different veterinary authors was only a superabundant 
secretion of urine, for which ought to be substituted the name 
of polyuria, and it was thought that the term diabetes should 
be erased from the veterinary nosology. But we must pause 
when we find that M. Leblanc, member of the Imperial 
Academy of France, has described two cases in the Clinique 
Feterinaire in which sugar was found in the urine. One 
was a greyhound bitch, the other a monkey. 
At the time when the notice of these interesting facts first 
appeared in print another case of this malady was observed 
by the author, in which a bitch belonging to an eminent 
artist of Brussels was affected with the disease, diabetes, in a 
high degree. But before describing this case the author 
deems it necessary to give a summary account of the labours 
of his eminent colleague in Paris. The first case occurred 
in a greyhound bitch of large size, age from six to seven 
vears, which w T as fed^exclusively on raw beef, and had always 
been in good health. But in April, 1849, she appeared to 
be unwell, urinated frequently and copiously, also drank 
a great deal, and became emaciated in spite of the large 
quantity of raw beef she consumed. M. Leblanc put the 
animal under a treatment which at first seemed beneficial, 
but it was soon found to be impotent; indeed, the patient 
gradually became worse. It was only towards the month of 
