Abstract
THIS book is a brief and severely practical account of the modern method of treating the diabetic. References to theory are few and are limited to such details as are absolutely necessary to explain the therapeutic steps. A short chapter is devoted to diagnosis, the second and third to general principles of treatment and dieting, the fourth to the use of insulin, and the remainder of the book to complications and special problems and considerations. As described by Dr. Izod Bennett, the restoration of a diabetic to such condition that he is sugar-free on sufficient diet appears an easy matter, and the general practitioner who has not had to deal with many cases will learn with surprise that this object can be attained almost invariably within three weeks. How it can be done is clearly set out in some fifty pages of this book, which, as a practical guide, lacks no essential features. Specimen diets during treatment, and food tables showing the great variety finally available, are included.
The Practical Treatment of Diabetes.
Dr.
T. Izod
Bennett
By. (Pp. ix + 107. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1931.) 6s. net.
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The Practical Treatment of Diabetes . Nature 131, 9 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131009d0
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