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IMMODERATE FLOW OF URINE.

debility, a peculiar sensation of prostration in the region
of the stomach. Some attribute these symptoms as
more applicable to the kidneys, and argue that the
absence of sugar in the blood, and the frequent absence
of dyspepsia, or anything connected with the stomach,
except the hunger, (which the excessive loss will ex-
plain,) make it appear most probable that the disease is
situated in the kidneys. On page 36 of Prout's work on
the stomach and renal diseases, that distinguished author
holds the following: " In diabetis, the reducing functions
of the stomach are for the most part, morbidly active,
while the converting function is more or less suspended
or paralyzed. In the diabetic stomach, therefore, sugar
is found in large quantity, particularly when -vegetable
aliments have been taken; and from the stomach the
sugar readily passes into the sanguiferous system, as just
stated." He further remarks, that within the last twen-
ty-five years, that he had seen upwards of 500 cases of
diabetis; and of this great number, as far as minor and
concomitant symptoms have been concerned, no two
cases had been exactly alike, or had been benefited by
exactly the same treatment. How great, then, must be
the diversity of the disease.
Under the head of diabetis, the same author makes
allusion to the article of tobacco; and his reasoning is
so much in accordance with our views of that pernicious
drug, that we beg indulgence for inserting it here. We
are all aware that tobacco is an article very much used,
and the deleterious effects resulting from its use on the
assimilating organs, entitles it to great consideration.
Dr. Prout says that "it is confessedly one of the most
virulent poisons in nature; yet such is the facinating
influence of this noxious weed, that mankind resort to

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