arbohydrate, 15 grams.
Protein, 25 grams.
Fat, 150 grams--1360 calories. No glycosuria.

Jan. 20.
Carbohydrate, 15 grams.
Protein, 25 grams.
Fat, 200 grams--1571 calories. No glycosuria.

Jan. 24.
Carbohydrate, 25 grams.
Protein, 35 grams.
Fat, 200 grams--1760 calories. No glycosuria.

Jan. 26.
Carbohydrate, 35 grams.
Protein, 40 grams.
Fat, 200 grams--1838 calories. No glycosuria.

Jan. 29.
Carbohydrate, 45 grams.
Protein, 50 grams.
Fat, 200 grams--2194 calories. No glycosuria.

Jan. 31.
Carbohydrate, 50 grams.
Protein, 60 grams.
Fat, 200 grams--2347 calories. No glycosuria.
Discharged Feb. 1 sugar-free on this diet.
Weight at entrance, 160 pounds.
Weight at discharge, 156 pounds.
This was not a severe case and responded very easily to treatment.

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Case 5. A female of 59, a diabetic of two years' standing, excreted
2.6% of sugar on Jan. 16, 1915, with no acetone or diacetic acid
reactions in the urine. Severe pruritus vulvae. Starved two days;
sugar-free on the second starvation day, with disappearance of the
pruritus.

Jan. 21.
Carbohydrate, 15 grams.
Protein, 25 grams.
Fat, 150 grams--1595 calories. No glycosuria.
From this time the diet was slowly raised until on

Jan. 30 she was getting
Carbohydrate, 35 grams.
Protein, 45 grams.
Fat, 200 grams--2156 calories.
She was sugar-free on this and was discharged to the out-patient
department after a two weeks' stay in the wards.
Weight at entrance, 135 pounds.
Weight at discharge, 133 pounds.

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Case 6. A man of 52, entered Jan. 10, 1915, with 1% of sugar. He
entered for arteriosclerosis and hypertension, and the sugar was found
in the routine examination of the urine. He was kept on house diet for
a few days and his sugar rose to 3.5%. No acetone or diacetic acid.
After two days of starvation he became sugar-free and continued so as
the diet was slowly raised. He was kept sugar-free in the ward
eighteen days and was sugar-free on Feb. 6 with a diet of

Carbohydrate, 60 grams.
Protein, 60 grams.
Fat, 200 grams--2280 calories.

On Feb. 7 the protein was raised to 80 grams and 0.2% of sugar
appeared in the urine. The protein was then reduced to 60 grams and he
remained sugar-free on this diet and was discharged so.

In this case, after starvation, a moderate amount of acetone appeared
an