Word: mellitus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tests which this machine performs are not diagnoses in themselves. Albumin may be found in the urine in over 20 different diseases and in itself is not diagnostic of kidney disease. The second test, presumably the Benedict's, is not diagnostic of diabetes mellitus...
Sufferers from diabetes mellitus turn the starches they eat into sugar to an abnormal degree. Their blood and urine is suffused with sugar.* Insulin controls this sugar production. Nonetheless such diabetics must always beware eating starchy foods...