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Excerpt from The O. A. C. Review, Vol. 46: April-May, 1934 Case two is that of a man, aged 27, no familic incidence, who had diabetes since he was 17. There were no complications and there had been no previous diseases. In June 1923, the patient weighed kg. And on a diet consisting of carbohydrate 77, protein 65, fat 182, to talling calories, the urine sugar free 'with 171 units of insulin daily. Nine years later on the high carbohydrate diet, the weight was kg. And on_a diet of carbohydrate 199, protein 98, fat 107, totalling calories, the urine was sugar free with 30 units of insulin daily. In this instance, on a diet of about the same calorie value, the carbohydrate content was more than doubled, yet the insulin requirement was materially decreased. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.