Word: mellitus
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...your Dec. 18 medicine story "From the Discard" you state that diabetes and hardening of the arteries are generally encountered as complications of ACTH treatment. A temporary metabolic derangement resembling diabetes mellitus is occasionally (but by no means always) encountered following the administration of large amounts of ACTH, but the condition subsides when the hormone is stopped...
Medically, the case is practically hopeless. Ortiz' diabetes, according to the doctors who reported to the Senate's investigating committee, is of the mellitus type, productive of small hemorrhages destructive of the eye's retina, though he is "able to perceive objects with the aid of strong sunlight and positive periscopic lenses." Dr. Castroviejo is, on the other hand, famed as the author of over 400 operations involving the grafting of a normal piece of cornea in a diseased eye. Reduced to one-syllable words, the doc is good but the case is bad. Chance of recovery...
...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...
...several times as effective as the common product, held out hope of obtaining perfectly pure insulin, of learning its chemical constituents (he is inclined to believe it is a sulphur compound) with the possibility of eventually making it synthetically and also ot discovering a contributing cause of diabetes mellitus in the absence of certain sulphur compounds from the diet...