On Enuresis and Diabetes (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. The chief reasons which have induced the writer to publish this little work are?first, the fact that due importance is not commonly attached to the affection on which it chiefly treats, and, second, a belief that much mischief is occasionally done by an injudicious resort to mechanical measures, with the idea of alleviating, or curing, Incontinence of Urine. It is unnecessary to make any remarks here upon these points, as they are fully discussed, with other matters, in the following pages, some portions of which (it should, perhaps, be mentioned) have appeared, at different times, in the columns of the " Lancet." 38, Doughty Stkeet, W.C. November, 1861. chapter{Section 4PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. Although the author had good grounds for the statements which he made in the preface to the- first edition, he was scarcely prepared for the very strong confirmation which they have received. Numerous cases have recently come under his-- notice, in which Enuresis had existed for many months, and even years, without the adoption. of any measures for its relief, or, at any rate, without a prompt and persevering recourse to proper treatment. In some of these, the result of this culpable neglect had been the production of a chronic irritable condition of the urinary organs, from which only very slight hopes of relief could be held out to the sufferers; whilst in other instances it was necessary to administer suitable medicines, and to enjoin a rigorous dietetic regimen for an unusually long period, before a decided mitigation of the symptoms could be obtained. With respect to the measures which had been employed, when attempts had been made to check the disorder, the facts which were elicited upon inquiry were equally striking. Som...