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It seems time to draw to the attention of medical men a subject which has been discussed usually by ophthalmologists, and often too only in relatively inaccessible society transactions. We have been able to find only twenty-six cases reported so far.REPORT OF A TWENTY-SEVENTH CASEMrs. R. was 50 years and 9 months old when the onset of diabetes was announced by blurred vision; this, with subsequent urinary incontinence, caused examination and diagnosis a month later. Almost exactly a year afterward, she came under Dr. Joslin's care. The twenty-four-hour urine then contained 85 gm. of sugar, and diacetic acid was + + +; the alveolar carbon dioxid was 31 mm.; the blood before breakfast showed creamy plasma, with 5.12 per cent, fat (Bloor) and sugar 0.31 per cent.; the net weight was 30 kg., 46 per cent, below her maximum of 113 pounds (51 kg.) three months before the onset of symptoms. |
