Address on the relation of food to work, and its bearing on medical practice, delivered before the British Medical Association, in the Divinity School at Oxford, on the fifth of August, 1868 / by Samuel Haughton.

  • Haughton, Samuel.
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1868
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Credit: Address on the relation of food to work, and its bearing on medical practice, delivered before the British Medical Association, in the Divinity School at Oxford, on the fifth of August, 1868 / by Samuel Haughton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A young man (set. 20) named Murphy, suffered from fever (Enteric?) in November, 1859, and on recovering, became diabetic; he was admitted into the Meath Hospital, in Octo¬ ber i860, where he remained, under my observation, until his death on the 12th January, 1861. He was allowed, for nine weeks, to eat as much as he liked of certain kinds of food, which were varied, week by week, to suit his wants, my object being to obtain, if possible, the natural constants of the disease, undisturbed by external in¬ terference ; the only medicine used by Hr. Stokes’s order being opium, to produce sleep, and a little kreasote occa¬ sionally, to promote digestion. As the details of this experi¬ ment have been fully published, I shall confine myself to the final results. His food and excretions were analyzed from week to week, so as to determine the total quantities of sugar¬ forming and urea-producing food, as well as the sugar and urea actually excreted. During six of the nine weeks, the sugar excreted was in excess of the sugar ingested; and the means of the whole nine weeks’ daily excretion and ingestion of sugar were. Sugar excreted,. 9773 Sugar ingested,.9321 ,, Diff. .... 452 grs. During two of the nine weeks of observation, the urea ex. creted was in excess of the urea ingested ; and the means of the whole nine weeks’ daily excretion and ingestion of urea were, Urea excreted,.1182 grs. Urea ingested,.^349 n The foregoing facts illustrate strikingly one of the promi. nent symptoms of Diabetes, viz., the canine appetite; the quantity, both of sugar-producing and urea-forming food con¬ sumed is more than double what is necessary to maintain a