The Milk Treatment of Diabetes in the Seventeenth Century

By Surgeon-Major N. Chevers, M.D., Principal, Medical College. Medical History repeats itself.?In his chapter on the " History of the Milk Treatment of Disease," Dr Donkin says that " during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries several works were written expressly on the therapeutic employment of milk. I may cite those of Costeas, Stephens, Short, Colombice, Ferris, and Petit-Radel " At the commencement of his tenth chapter he says ;?" When the idea first occurred to me to try an exclusive regimen of milk as a remedy for diabetes,.I certainly received no encouragement whatever from consulting the writings of the more recent of the acknowledged authorities on the treatment of this disease."