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Diabetes is a Greek word meaning a passer through a siphon. Mellitus comes from the Greek word sweet. Apparently, the Greeks named it thus because the excessive amounts of urine diabetics produce (when blood glucose is too high) attracted flies and bees because of the glucose content. The ancient Chinese tested for diabetes by observing whether ants were attracted to a persons urine medieval European doctors tested for it by tasting the urine themselves, a scene occasionally depicted in Gothic reliefs. It is probably important to note that passing abnormal amounts of urine is a symptom shared by several diseases (most commonly of the kidneys), and the single word diabetes is applied to many of them. The most common of them are diabetes insipidus and the subject of this article, diabetes mellitus... |
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