Notes of a diabetic case.

  • Rollo, John, -1809.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Notes of a diabetic case. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of emetics, and in fhort of whatever induces fick- nefs or unpleafant commotions in the ftomach, Ihew forcibly the dependence of this difeafe on a condition of it very different from that of health ? Do they not fhew that fuch a condition conftfts in an increafed morbid a£tion of the fto- mach ? The affirmative of thofe queftions is ren- dered {till more probable when we confider the keennefs and voracioufnefs of appetite the patient had, and the quicknefs of its returns. Can any thing be inferred from any fuppofed change in the condition of the gaftric fluid ? The peculiar na- ture of the gaftric fluid is but little underftood, it is known however to poffefs very a&ive proper- ties as is fhewn by its effedts on the dead ftomach, and the experiments of Spalanzani, &c. and if thefe are admitted there can be no doubt, but that it is the moft efficient fluid in the body, and may like other feeretions be liable to morbid changes, producing lingular and extraordinary effcdls, though at prefent altogether unknown. We would on the whole fay, that the caufe of pur diabetic difeafe, very probably confided in the fecretion of too great a quantity of the gaftric fluid, with lbme alteration in its quality, and