A RENAISSANCE OF THE CONTROL OF DIABETES

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Bouchardat, the first to give hope to the diabetic, rationalized the Rollo diet, introduced exercise into diabetic care, and fixed responsibility on the patient for the control of his disease. Fanconi was sure diabetes could be controlled and to prove it even went to the extreme of the lock and key method of isolating patients. Naunyn stressed control above all else: "Each severe glycosuria in a diabetic ought to be permanently prevented, because sooner or later it will become ominous. In my experience I consider it to be very probable that among the early strictly handled patients, who in the beginning gave the impression of being severe, but later on ran a favorable course, there was many a one who has this timely rigid treatment to thank for it and, furthermore, on the other hand there can be no doubt whatsoever that the cases, which ultimately ran a severe course,

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