An essay on the disease commonly called diabetes / by William Washington.

  • Washington, William.
Date:
1802
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    other difeafc. Before I proceed, it may be thought necefTary that I mould firft declare, from whom this Theory was derived. In doing this, I feel a pleafure in acknow- ledging, that it was taught by the ProfefTor of the Inftitutes of Medicine in this Univerfity, who, in his Pathological Lectures informs his pupils, that he had long wifhed for a fatisfac- tory Theory of its production, and had thought much on the fubject; but was at laft forced to refort to the unity of difeafe for its explana- tion, and fince adoption, it has been fupport- ed by the fuccefs attending the practice found- ed upon it. Perfons of every age and fex ap- pear to be fubject to it, but it moft frequently attacks thofe who are in an advanced ftage of life. In purfuing this fubject, I fhall, frfl, give a general account of the fymptoms with which it is accompanied j fecondly, the differ- ent kinds of urine fecreted; thirdly, the caufes which ufually bring it on; and, lajily, the proximate caufe, under which head I fhall confider fome of the molt plaufible opinions which have been advanced to explain it.