. The Saturday evening post. They Must Suffer and Starve in the Midst of Plenty But suddenly one day, without any reappearance ofsugar or other warning, the patient would begin to com-plain of headache, shortness of breath and drowsiness, andsink into a state of unconsciousness from which he mightnever wake up—the dreaded diabetic coma, which causessomething like two-thirds of the deaths from this had apparently cured the disease—but not the patient. About this time modern methods of studying the chem-istry of the blood were coming into general use, and with theiraid we discovered t
. The Saturday evening post. They Must Suffer and Starve in the Midst of Plenty But suddenly one day, without any reappearance ofsugar or other warning, the patient would begin to com-plain of headache, shortness of breath and drowsiness, andsink into a state of unconsciousness from which he mightnever wake up—the dreaded diabetic coma, which causessomething like two-thirds of the deaths from this had apparently cured the disease—but not the patient. About this time modern methods of studying the chem-istry of the blood were coming into general use, and with theiraid we discovered that this dreaded and ofttimes fatalcoma was produced not by unburned sugar or any of itsproducts, but by large quantities of acid substances of thebutyric, or rancid buttery group, known as oxybutyricacid, acetone, diacetic acid and other hard names. These,as their names imply, are not sugary substances at all, butfatty ones, formed by the imperfect burning of fat; in-deed, not widely different from the acrid vapors whic
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