TREATMENT OF DIABETES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 October 1922, Page 2

TREATMENT OF DIABETES

A CHRISTCHURCH i.OCTOR .3 VIEWS (By Telegraph.—Special to The Mail.) CHRISTCIimC'H, Oct. 14. Br FN. Bevan Brown 1 , of Christchurch, said the New York caf Jegram announcing a cure for diabsics should be accepted • with cmsideraole caitiori and reserve. "A full < p inori olviM'.fly cannot be given withr.it It'll deiads, but as the cablegram appears one cannot but say that such a statement at such an early elate is premature in a disease sucii as diabetes. Before one can pronounce that a cure lias been discovered it is necessary to have the figures of a very long period of time. It is well known that in recent years English and Anicri-j can workers have devised a method ofj dieting by which a large number of | diabetical can reasonably expect to be so improved that they can lead active lives for many years. The pathology of diabetes is a very complicated and difficult question, and" is still largely a matter of controversy, so that .treatment of the disease is necessarily one of constant experiment based on long experience and can hardly be achieved by any sudden discovery. American workers arc rather inclined in their enthusiasm for n. discovery to proclaim one before if has been properly established. Dietetic treatment of diabetes is the bedrock" on which English workers place reliance, and results (if this treatment, if it W skilfully applied, arc in many cases highly satisfactory. As far as 1 know no method of serum treatment has vet been used in New Zealand.