This is mildly interesting. Here is Hippocrates describing Juvenile diabetes onset in his medical work “On Ancient Medicine.”>>But there are certain persons who cannot readily change their diet with impunity; and if they make any alteration in it for one day, or even for a part of a day, are greatly injured thereby. Such persons, provided they take dinner when it is not their wont, immediately become heavy and inactive, both in body and mind, and are weighed down with yawning, slumbering, and thirst; and if they take supper in addition, they are seized with flatulence, tormina, and diarrhea, and to many this has been the commencement of a serious disease, when they have merely taken twice in a day the same food which they have been in the custom of taking once. And thus, also, if one who has been accustomed to dine, and this rule agrees with him, should not dine at the accustomed hour, he will straightway feel great loss of strength, trembling, and want of spirits, the eyes of such a person will become more pallid, his urine thick and hot, his mouth bitter; his bowels will seem, as it were, to hang loose; he will suffer from vertigo, lowness of spirit, and inactivity,- such are the effects; and if he should attempt to take at supper the same food which he was wont to partake of at dinner, it will appear insipid, and he will not be able to take it off; and these things, passing downwards with tormina and rumbling, burn up his bowels; he experiences insomnolency or troubled and disturbed dreams; and to many of them these symptoms are the commencement of some disease. He attributes symptoms of Hyper and Hypoglycemia to the stomach struggling to digest the food or going without food for too long.
>>18121079Mildly interesting indeed. Thanks OP. I wonder how they treated it before the invention of pig insulin
>>18121342They didn’t treat it. It just grew slowly worse by worse until the sufferer died. As it says at the end of the excerpt>>and to many of them these symptoms are the commencement of some disease. They understood these signs were the very beginning of a serious disease they could never treat. I do believe I read elsewhere the doctors of Kos tested more thoroughly for diabetes by drinking the urine of the subject though I don’t have any primary sources to post for that
>>18122038that's a normal ancient diagnostic method, no source needed
