The Use of Insulin in Surgery 1A Paper read at a meeting of the Bath and Bristol Branch of the British Medical Association on Wednesday, October 27th, 1926.
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Although diabetes and its treatment have been considered to be the province of physicians, surgery has reaped unexpected advantage from the introduction of insulin. The chief causes of death in diabetes are coma and infection. Now coma need not occur in diabetes, that is to say true diabetic coma with acetonemia and acidosis. There are cases which develop coma from other causes such as uraemia, septicaemia, cerebral hemorrhage, an overdose of narcotics or even meningitis ; the last diabetic who died comatose in my wards died of tuberculous meningitis, and we have all seen a cerebral hemorrhage terminate a long-standing case of diabetes.
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دوره 43 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016