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...Theodore Leonidowitch Althausen, of the University of California, long worried over tragic mistakes made in diagnosing these two diseases. For several years he tried to devise a method which would tell whether a patient suffering from hyperthyroidism also had diabetes. Doctors always assumed that diabetics and hyperthyroids, after meals, passed sugars into their bloodstreams at the same rate of speed. But Dr. Althausen questioned this belief, set to work on the hunch that the rate of speed of sugar absorption depends directly upon the amount of thyroxin produced by the thyroid gland. Thus, hyperthyroids would absorb sugars at a higher...