The dietetic treatment of diabetes / by B.D. Basu.

  • Basu, Baman Das, 1867-1930.
Date:
1916
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Credit: The dietetic treatment of diabetes / by B.D. Basu. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    withdrawal of carbo-hydrates from foods produces acid auto-intoxication. This leads to acetonuria, which is due to the removal of carbo-hydrates from the food. The presence of acetone in the blood is mainly responsible for the occurrence of diabetic coma. Recent years have seen something like a revolu¬ tion in the dietetic management of diabetic patients. Not very many years ago, medical men, as a matter of routine practice, used to deprive their diabetic patients of all carbo-hydrate foods. This can be gathered from the long lists of articles of food which were allowed, and of those which were forbidden, to diabetics, by such eminent medical men as Dr. Pavy, Sir William Roberts, and others. As specimens, the lists prepared by the two above-named physicians are reproduced below :— PAVY’S* * Sanctioned. Butcher’s meat of all kinds, except liver. Ham, bacon, and other pre¬ served meats. Poultry and game. Fish of all kinds, fresh and cured, including the Crus¬ tacea. Forbidden. Sugar in any form. Wheaten bread and ordinary biscuits of all kinds. Rice, arrowroot. Sago, tapioca. Macaroni, vermicelli. Potatoes, carrots. Parsnips. this test diet, for not only many of them are born vegetarians and teetotalers, and so will not partake the foods prescribed above, but acute cases of diabetes being rare in this country, most of them possess toleration for carbo-hydrates. * “ Food and Dietetics,” 2nd edition, 1876.