Diabetic coma / by Balthazar Foster and Robert Saundby.

  • Foster Balthazar W. (Balthazar Walter), Sir, 1840-1913.
Date:
1883
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    (Reprinted from the Birmingham Medical Review^ January^ 1883.) DIABETIC COMA. BY BALTHAZAR FOSTER, M.D., F.R.C.P., PHYSICIAN TO THE GENERAL HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM ; AND ROBERT SAUNDBY, M.D., M.R.C.P., ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO THE GENERAL HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM. Our attention has for some years past been directed to the phenomena of diabetic coma, and in previous papers^ we have tried to elucidate some points in this interesting subject. We therefore desire to record the following case as a further contribution to this discussion, and as an illustration of those views which we have formerly advocated on the pathology of this condition. F. W. A., 17, jeweller, presented himself as an out- patient at the General Hospital, on Thursday, Oct. 19th, complaining that he was rapidly losing strength and flesh, and passing a very large quantity of urine. He looked very ill, and his urine, on examination, contained a large quantity of sugar, was of sp. gr., 1,040 but gave no reaction with ferric chloride. He was recommended for admission, and the following history was obtained. There has been no known instance of diabetes in the family ; his mother * Foster. On Acetonaemia. British Med. Journal. Jan. 19th, 1878. Saundby. Diabetic Coma. Birmingham Med. Review. 1881. p. 193. Saundby and Barling. On Fat Embolism. Tournal of Anat. and Phvs. July, 1882.