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IMMODERATE FLOW OF URINE.
expo eO the mixture to a temperature of 70 or 800. If
it be diabetic, an effervescence will speedily commence,
gas will escape, and the liquor will acquire a vinous
odor.
Another test. If diabetic urine be allowed to stand
without addition, in a moderate temperature, it will
undergo spontaneous decomposition, becoming acid, and
having the smell of sour milk. At this period another
test will be, that if it is thrown into the fire it will burn
like spirited.
The specific gravity of the urine is one of the best
tests. Healthy urine is generally from 1.010. to 1.015.;
diabetic urine reaches as high as 1.050., and many
authors say they have seen it much higher.
TDrnincions of Diabetis.-That of consumption is
decidedly the most frequent; it, however, frequently
terminates in dropsy, apoplexy, diseases of the liver, &c.
The general prognosis in regard to this disease is deci-
dedly very unfavorable in its mildest form,
The 'most important feature for the practitioner, I
conceive, is the pathology of the disease, (as for the
causes, they are occult and obscure, unless it be to admit
that it is sometimes the result of hereditary tendencies.
Some of our ablest and most scientific physicians declare
the disease to be situated and confined alone to the kid-
neys; while there is another class, whose opinions are
entitled to great consideration, locate this disease, and
almost exclusively confine it to the stomach. I am
more than inclined to the latter opinion. Quite a vari-
ety of the symptoms can be explained upon both sides
of these conflicting opinions. In support of the latter
opinion, the disease is almost always accompanied with
dyspepsia, also costiveness, emaciation, hunger, and great
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Massie, J. Cam. A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine, book, 1854; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143817/m1/385/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.