Fatal thirst diabetes in Britain until insulin / [electronic resource] :
by Elizabeth Lane Furdell.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
- xii, 194 p.
- History of science and medicine library, v. 9 1872-0684 ; .
- History of science and medicine library ; v. 9. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-190) and index.
Introduction : the "biography" of a disease and its sufferers -- The early history of diabetes from classical times to the Renaissance : diagnoses and descriptions -- Renaissance diabetics and their doctors : changing treatments for revolutionary times -- Early modern medicine in print and diabetes : published advice and imagery -- Diabetes and seventeenth-century medical controversy -- Reconstructing diabetic life in early modern England -- Diabetic specialists and their patients in the long nineteenth century : competition for a cure -- After insulin : the lingering effects of an incurable disease.
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