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100 1 _aHill, Lewis Webb,
_d1889-1968
245 1 4 _aThe Starvation Treatment of Diabetes
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2008
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2008-07-14
508 _aProduced by Stacy Brown, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
520 _a"The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes" by Lewis Webb Hill and Rena Sarah Eckman is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The book focuses on the innovative dietary approaches to managing diabetes, particularly emphasizing the methods developed by Dr. Frederick M. Allen at the Massachusetts General Hospital. It aims to provide healthcare practitioners with detailed instructions and recipes for a series of diets intended to support patients through the stages of treatment. The opening of the work includes an introduction that discusses the significance and effectiveness of the starvation treatment for diabetes as a method that has shown promise in clinical settings. The authors present a motivation for their book by detailing the importance of understanding the composition of food and the precise caloric values required for effective treatment. The text outlines the initial medical approaches to diabetes management, highlights the starvation period where patients consume limited calories primarily through whiskey or broth, and sets the stage for the structured progression of dietary adjustments that follow, emphasizing care in monitoring carbohydrate and protein intake. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aDiabetes
653 _aDiet in disease
700 1 _aEckman, Rena S.
_q(Rena Sarah),
_d1868-1946
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26058
999 _c67059
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