Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

This review of progress in diabetes mellitus will consider advances in knowledge concerning alloxan and carbohydrate metabolism, recent papers on diabetic neuropathy, two articles dealing respectively with diabetes in children and with facts concerning the disease in Finland and, finally, associations, societies, foundations and trusts primarily interested in the problems brought about by this disease.AlloxanDuff,¹ a well informed scientific investigator whose opinion is greatly respected and whose review of the pathology of the pancreas in experimental diabetes mellitus is most complete, makes the following statement: "It is most improbable at present that alloxan plays a role in the . . .