CONTROL OF DIABETES MELLITUS

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There continues to be a great deal of anxiety concerning the healing of wounds in cases of diabetes mellitus. Before the discovery of insulin a rising blood sugar level with increasing glycosuria was an ominous sign after a surgical operation or if the patient had an infected wound. The wounds of those who did not succumb to acidosis were likely to heal very slowly or become infected, and existing infection tended to spread. Since the advent of insulin, acidosis has been preventable and has ceased to be formidable. The other complications, however, continue to be menacing. The idea is prevalent that such complications occur more frequently among patients with a high blood sugar level and glycosuria than among those who have a normal blood sugar level and no glycosuria. Study of the literature reveals that the methods advocated for the control of diabetes after surgical operations, or when the patient

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