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

**Diabetes. Its Medical and Cultural History** covers the history of scientific inquiry into this affliction from antiquity to the discovery of insulin (1921) with concurrent consideration of the history of the patient and the cultural historical background. The reprints of medical historical studies discuss general relationships as well as specific details and exceptional research achievements of the past. Included in the bibliography of primary sources are the most important historical contributions in diabetic research and diabetic therapy with the author's name and information on the place of publication. The bibliography of secondary literature consolidates international studies from the past century to the present on the history of the theory of diabetes and therapeutic approaches. Illustrations and literary texts document cultural historical relationships. In index of persons and items facilitates use of this work which is intended to provide a stimulus for the physician, medical historian, medical student, general historian as well as diabetics themselves. 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