. The Saturday evening post. e his discomforts and,when heroically applied, actually to put his life in danger. It was early found that sugar was being lost from the bodyin diabetes, and that cutting down on the starchy foods ofthe patient would improve his condition. As there was prac-tically no sugar in the diet in those days, except in the formof a very little honey and dried sweet fruits, there was noground for the mistaken impression which so widely ex-ists nowadays as to sugar eating being the cause of diabetes. It has always been a favorite rule of the practitioners ofphysic, both profe
. The Saturday evening post. e his discomforts and,when heroically applied, actually to put his life in danger. It was early found that sugar was being lost from the bodyin diabetes, and that cutting down on the starchy foods ofthe patient would improve his condition. As there was prac-tically no sugar in the diet in those days, except in the formof a very little honey and dried sweet fruits, there was noground for the mistaken impression which so widely ex-ists nowadays as to sugar eating being the cause of diabetes. It has always been a favorite rule of the practitioners ofphysic, both professional andamateur, When in doubtblame the liver. And as dia-betes was very much in doubtindeed, it was not long beforethat large and long-sufferingorgan up under the right ribcartilages was really wasnt at all a badguess, because the liver wasknown to be the only organof the body which containedsugar after death, and also toplay a prominent part in thedigestion of starches duringlife. This didnt help us much. Jlftcr Two or Three Daysof This Lenten Fare an EggIs Mttowed at Breakfast in our treatment, for, though weare extremely fond to this day ofstirring up the liver, and our drugstores and household medicinechests are full of remedies for thispurpose, no drug as yet discoveredhas the slightest effect in quick-ening the metabolic gait of thatimposing and important , the earliest foundation of our scientific knowl-edge of diabetes was based on a liver hypothesis in thesplendid pioneer work of the great father of modern physi-ology, Claude Bernard, about a century ago. By a mas-terly series of experiments he proved that the starch takeninto the body was changed into glucose, or grape sugar, inthe intestines. This glucose was carried by the blood tothe liver, which proceeded to turn it into a curious sub-stance called glycogen, or animal starch, which was lessreadily soluble than sugar, and therefore could be storedaway for future use in the liver its
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