Fatal thirst
Subtitle: diabetes in Britain until insulin
By: by Elizabeth Lane Furdell.
Series: History of science and medicine library -- v. 9
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9789004172500
Subjects: Diabetes -- Great Britain -- History; Diabetes Mellitus -- history -- Great Britain; Insulin -- history -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the "biography" of a disease and its sufferers; title: The early history of diabetes from classical times to the Renaissance : diagnoses and descriptions; title: Renaissance diabetics and their doctors : changing treatments for revolutionary times; title: Early modern medicine in print and diabetes : published advice and imagery; title: Diabetes and seventeenth-century medical controversy; title: Reconstructing diabetic life in early modern England; title: Diabetic specialists and their patients in the long nineteenth century : competition for a cure; title: After insulin : the lingering effects of an incurable disease.