TREATMENT OF DIABETES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18222, 16 October 1922, Page 8

TREATMENT OF DIABETES.

AMERICAN "CURE" DISCUSSEO DOCTOR REMAINS SCEPTICAL fBX TELEGBAPH.—OWN COttRKSPONDENT.] CHBISTCBXTKCH, Saturday Dr. F. V. Bevan Brown, of Christchurch, said the New York cablegram announcing a core for diabetes, Bhould be accepted with considerable caution and reserve. " A full opinion obviously cannot be given without full details," he »aid, " but as the cablegram appears, one can say that such a statement at such an early date is premature. In a disease «uch as diabetes, before one can pronounce that a euro has been discovered, it is necessary to have the figures of a very large number of cases over a very long period of time. *• It is well known that in recent years English and American workers have devised a method of dieting by which a large number of diabetics 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 are rather inclined in their enthusiasm for discovery to proclaim one before it has been properly established. Dietetic treatment of diabetes is the * bedrock * on which English workers place reliance and results of this treatment, if it is skilfully applied, are in many cases highly satisfactory. As far as I know no method of serum treatment has yet been used in New Zealand."