Author: James Tyson

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Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781331146322

Excerpt from A Treatise on Bright's Disease and Diabetes This book has been out of print many years. I have been unable to revise it earlier because of a pressure of what seemed more urgent demands on my time. As a consequence it has been in large part rewritten and much enlarged. To illustrate the text, I have added several original colored plates, representing the principal forms of Bright's disease drawn from cases in my own experience, now quite large, while a number of new drawings have been also added illustrating the histology of these forms. Moreover I have had the advantage of collaboration by my colleague, Professor George E. de Schweinitz, in the preparation of separate sections by him on the Ocular Manifestations of Bright's Disease and in Diabetes. These have also been illustrated by colored plates of eye grounds from his own cases. I have added entirely new sections on acute interstitial nephritis and on the dietetic treatment of Bright's disease, a subject which is attracting much attention of late and with regard to which I think some erroneous views have become prevalent. The unsettled state of the pathology and etiology of Diabetes makes the latter subject difficult to treat satisfactorily, but pains have been taken to present clearly the different conditions under which the symptoms arise, in order that they may be recognized and such conclusions drawn as to their origin as may be justified. Under the dietetic treatment of Diabetes Mellitus I have included an analysis of some of the more usual foods, more particularly with regard to carbohydrate constituents, quite independent of the claims of the makers, in order that the physician may decide for himself which to select. These analyses were made most carefully by Dr. Daniel W. Fetterolf of the Chemical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and may be relied upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.