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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. GLYCOSURIA AND DIABETES MELLITUS. DIABETES INSIPIDUS. We use the term glycosuria or melituria to describe a more or less temporary condition, in which sugar appears in the urine under varied circumstances. If the amount of sugar is slight and it soon disappears, the condition may be merely glycosuria. It is noticed (i) in healthy persons after excessive indulgence in sugar; 200 gm. (seven ounces) or upwards at one time of grape sugar, in solution, may cause the appearance in an honr or two of a small amount of dextrose in the urine (alimentary glycosuria). If sugar appear in the urine after taking small amounts, as 50 to 100 gm. (two to three ounces) the condition is called morbid alimentary glycosuria. The writer has observed this condition occur in patients after taking certain articles of food or drink, notably, bananas and champagne. In such cases the power to assimilate sugar is subnormal and the condition may be followed in time by true diabetes roellitus. The writer has found that the best time for the detection of morbid alimentary glycosuria is in the afternoon, the saccharine articles being taken at lunch. Such a glycosuria is observed according to Striimpel in obese beer drinkers, in patients with severe traumatic neurosis, and in exophthalmic goitre. Temporary glycosuria may occur in acute infectious diseases (typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, malaria, cholera, malignant pustule,) in nervous disturbances as from injuries to the head, in diseases of the brain, and after epileptic fits, after the administration of drugs in toxic doses as Curare, Amyl nitrite, Mercury, Morphine, Hydrocyanic acid, in poisoning by Carbonic oxide, and after ingestion of Phloridzin, in the latter case without general disturbance, and after the injection...
