The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-01
IS DIABETES DURABLE?

IS DIABETES CURABLEY
 In many cases of diabetes if the patients follow 8 reasonably re- stricted diet, insulin is not neces- sary. In some cases, after prolonged use of insulin in moderate daily doses, patients find, as they gain in strength and health by the aid of insulin, that their own insulin-pro- ducing function improves so that they get along thereafter with small CT doses of irisulin or perhaps with out any at all for considerable pe- riods, resuming insulin from time to time for short periods, as their habit of living and the urine test may indicate.
 I do not believe 1t advisable to attempt to teach how to test the urine for sugar. That is a question best left to the individuals own physician. Laymen who undertake to make the test without medical instruction are likely to reach false conclusions. Anyway, the mere presence of sugar in the urine does not necessarily mean diabetes. "A Book for Us Diabetics" published by Dr. Don H. Duffle, Central Lake, Michigan, gives specific instructions for making the test at home with Gaelic economy. This is, in my opin- ion, the best guide book for the diabetes patient. I know it has been of great service to thousands of dia- betics.
 "There are several things which the diabetic needs to guard careful ly," says Dr. Duf1e, in this fine book Ca copy may be bought by mail postpaid for two dollars), "among them his feet, his cuts and scratches, his bowels, and his disposition!"
 Grief and prolonged anxiety dur- ing a momentous crisis have been regarded as causes of diabetes in some instances. Anger or fright is generally followed by increase in the sugar excreted, in diabetes. An instructive explanation of this effect of emotion is given in Prof. Can- non's Bodily Changes in Pain, Hun ger, Fear and Rage" (Appleton's, 1915).
 Recall what we said earlier about potential diabetes or pre-diabetes, and also that diabetes is a func- tional deficiency, and that we mere ly set an arbitrary limit between potential diabetes and actual dia- betes, and it becomes understand able that diabetes is curable in some cases. Recall, too, what we have said about the function of vi- tamin B complex in carbohydrate metabolism. Now. I am no expert on diabetes, but I believe prolonged moderate shortage in vitamin B complex intake, due to the charac- ter of our modern refined diet, IS an important contributing cause of diabetes. have advanced this idea to several excellent physicians who are experts or specialists and none of them has taken much interest in 1t. But then, that doesn't mean so much = I could cite numerous oth- CT notions I have promoted, much against the general belief of the medical profession and eventually some of these notions have been &C., cepted and adopted in general prac- tice.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Arms Go to Sleep.
 Some time ago read the report of a woman whose arms and hands went to sleep frequently. She said she had been much relieved by some kind of calcium, think. (Mrs. s. W. L0
 Answer-That and other com plaintS associated with the memo pause may be relieved in many cases by daily rations of calcium and vii tsmin D. For instructions send stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress, and ask for monograph on 'The Menopause."
 Fruit Acid.
 Whom can a poor layman believe? One doctor warns against acid fruits and other foods, another advises that such foods be eaten freely. Tn one article you said person with acid stomach should avoid the citrus fruits. In another you declared that