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1© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022E. V. Lerma, V. Batuman (eds.), Diabetes and Kidney Disease, 1Historical Background of Diabetic KidneyDiseaseVivian Fonseca, Arezu Bhatnagar, and Govind Datta ChamarthiIntroductionSymptoms of diabetes are recorded as far back as 400 BC; the Indian physicianSushruta describes diabetes in an ancient Hindi document as “madhumeha” or thehoneyed-urine disease [1]. Around 150 AD, the Greek physician Aretaeus ofCappadocia wrote:Diabetes is a remarkable disorder, and not one very common to man. It consists of a moistand cold wasting of the flesh and limbs into urine... the secretion passes in the usual way,by the kidneys and the bladder. It is of improbable, also, that something pernicious, derivedfrom other disease which attack the bladder and kidneys may sometimes prove the cause ofthis affliction. The patients never cease making water, but the discharge is as incessant as asluice let off. This disease is chronic in character, and is slowly engendered, though thepatient does not survive long when it is completely established for the marasmus producedis rapid and death is speedy [2].For many centuries thereafter, diabetes mellitus was regarded as a di

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Author

Edgar V. Lerma, Vecihi Batuman (Editors)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030860202

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Diabetes, Medicine