Fatal thirst diabetes in Britain until insulin - Furdell, Elizabeth Lane.; ebrary, Inc. (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-190) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Diabetes -- Great Britain -- History; Electronic books