Diabetes Its Medical and Cultural History: Outlines — Texts — Bibliography

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Outlines of Historical Development....Pages 3-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
A Sad Fall....Pages 15-26
The Song of Diabetes....Pages 27-33
The Clever Diabetic (1969)....Pages 34-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-40
The History of Diabetes mellitus....Pages 43-100
Diabetes, Sugar Consumption and Luxury Through the Ages....Pages 101-106
Diabetes....Pages 109-111
Synonyms for Diabetes in Antiquity and Their Etymology....Pages 112-119
News, Notes and Queries....Pages 120-124
Aretaeus the Cappadocian....Pages 125-140
Epistemological Fashions in Interpreting Disease....Pages 143-159
The Urinary Flux of the Ancient Indians (Prameha)....Pages 160-197
Paracelsus and the Sugar Disease....Pages 201-208
The First Description of the Symptoms of Experimental Pancreatic Diabetes by the Swiss Johann Conrad Brunner (1653–1727)....Pages 209-228
John Rollo....Pages 229-234
Matthew Dobson (1735–1784). Clinical Investigator of Diabetes Mellitus....Pages 235-237
Then and Now: 100 Years of Diabetes Mellitus....Pages 238-265
On the Development of Anatomical Research on the Pancreas from Vesalius to Bichat....Pages 266-279
On the Development of Anatomical Research on the Pancreas from Vesalius to Bichat....Pages 280-294
From the History of Diabetes with Particular Reference to the Pancreas....Pages 295-305
Front Matter....Pages 37-40
First Steps in Claude Bernard’s Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver....Pages 306-319
The Priority Dispute between Claude Bernard and Victor Hensen about the Discovery of Glycogen....Pages 320-335
Paul Langerhans — of Islets and Islands....Pages 336-349
The Discovery of Pancreatic Diabetes....Pages 350-358
Apollinaire Bouchardat 1806–1886....Pages 359-362
The First Case of Diabetic Retinopathy....Pages 363-369
The History of Traumatic Diabetes....Pages 370-396
Insulin Precursors — a Historical Sketch....Pages 397-404
Karl Petrén. A Leader in Pre-Insulin Dietary Therapy of Diabetes....Pages 405-407
On the History of the Discovery of Insulin....Pages 411-419
Problems of Priority in the Discovery of Insulin....Pages 420-426
Right and Wrong Avenues of Exploration in German Insulin Research....Pages 427-436
50 Years of Insulin Treatment at the Vienna Hospital for Children — the Fate of Diabetic Children from the First Insulin Era....Pages 437-450
The Beginning of the Diabetic Association in England....Pages 451-454
The Early History of the American Diabetes Association....Pages 455-461
Back Matter....Pages 463-493