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DIABETES MELLITUS AND SYPHILISA STUDY OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT CASES
L. TILLMAN McDANIEL, M.D.;
HERBERT H. MARKS, B.A.;
ELLIOTT P. JOSLIN, M.D.
Arch Intern Med. 1940;66(5):1011-1051.
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The relationship of diabetes mellitus and syphilis occurring in the same patient has for several decades been a frequent subject of discussion by clinicians in all countries. In the latter part of the nineteenth century much was written to the effect that syphilis was either the sole cause or a frequent cause of diabetes mellitus. Many physicians considered diabetes mellitus to be a so-called parasyphilitic disease. The discovery and adoption of serologic tests rapidly dispersed notions of parasyphilitic diseases, and the application of laboratory tests for determination of urine and blood sugar values greatly clarified the situation found in true diabetes mellitus.1 Two excellent papers concerning this problem have appeared in the literature. Labbé and Touflet,2 in France, and Lemann,3 in the United States, thoroughly discussed the subject. In addition, Rosenbloom4 reviewed the literature and listed many references. In neither the generally used American medical textbooks nor the systems of
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Author Affiliations
BOSTON; NEW YORK; Medical Director of the George F. Baker Clinic, New England Deaconess Hospital BOSTON
From the statistical department of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
Footnotes
Fellow in Diabetes Mellitus and Medicine, George F. Baker Clinic, New England Deaconess Hospital, 1938 to 1940.
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