Diabetes #265520

The author of one of the most important scientific treatises on Diabetes, which has hitherto been declared incurable, is Prof. F. T. Frerichs, one of my former teachers. His work (berlin, the result of exact, scientific Observations, and the fruit of forty years of study, must be regarded as of great authoritative value. Nevertheless, at the close Of his work, he feels compelled to acknowledge that, with our present knowledge of diabetes, we are still unable to explain the essential nature of this disease. Baffled, he exclaims For a long time perhaps the enigma of this sphinx will yet remain unsolved, and many a human being will yet be carried Off by it before we shall find an adequate solution of it.