HISTORY Man has long recognized diabetes mellitus, and this disorder – or a syndrome resembling it – was well known to the ancients. The original clinical description must now be lost in antiquity, but Lazarus and Volk in their excellent historical review attributed the earliest writings on this subject to the papyrus Ebers (circa 1500 B.C.). The term “diabetes” that we use today was introduced in more recent times by Aretaeus of Capdocia shortly after the birth …showed first 75 words of 2565 total…

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