Show 4 r DAILY HEALTH SERVICE SERVICE Diabetic C Can Live Can to Ripe Old T 0 I. I Age j. j if He Is Very V ry Careful a i I By Y DR MORRis F. F FISHBEIN Si EIN Jour Journal al of the American 1 Association and of Hygeia H i I th the H Health alth Magazine Magazin For almost seven years cars insulin has lias been av available ll ble to tile thc lers person n with diabetes s As As' Asa a result o du- du cation in the the- use of of this tiis substance lh the 1108 Ivoe of diabetics dl havo have been prolonged S J Now Dr P. Adams asserts that a. a iL L' L patient nt suffering 1 with un diabetes s may l J long as his neighbor neighbor- 0 ot of the same sanio atc age The The diabetic must however however how how- ever ever- control his existence carefully carefully care care- C fully ny and any ny slip sUp In his of of- ln lI living mn may may- him bad health and even cven early death v In In Inthe the first 1 the diabetic who wh wants to to long must be b Intelligent He must learn to recognize nize the tho symptoms ot of da danger g land landt and t to ta avert t t. t them In iii t their In lp He mu must t. t live constantly with his diabetes Jn in mind Therefore c a a. c care re ul Jl ow w thinker is better hietter i off under d r these circumstances circumstance than is isa a a. careless intellectual giant The patient with a L' L mild a form of ot df diabetes s gets gs ts along alonS better the theone one mc with a a- severo severe form form of ot tho th-o dis ease Diabetics Dlab DIab tc must t bo ho- p particularly careful of of small infections ns An infection such as as a boll boil hicl is riot not especially serious to a a. a non- non diabetic mn may quickly assume sufficient sufficient suf sut- virulence e t to cau caus death Ina Ina In Ina a l Dt Dr Adams poi points ls out that the Ideal occupation tion of oC a ti person 11 with diabetes la ff one win which W which will permit him to to- h have ve regular hours and which h will nJ not not d demand violent nt Ie physical o exercise se p. p persons r ps who h travel much or or are who engaged li In heavy physical n w work work- ik are ar not able to lo take take care are o of th their diets lr and arid their insulin 18 R au well as as tho those o who whIp have less active occupations T Ira Ideal idea life f for r the tile diabetic Iverson person is is' o of at course to live at home homo and to be te able to cat all cat all of his meals meals thereA there ther A significant ob observation tl ll is Ute the tact fact that diabetes is Js not a a poor poor- pans nian's disease The person who re requires requires requires re- re quires Insulin finds that it costs coats from from- 2 to 15 a n. month f for r his supply sup sup- ply ot of the drug The person with dabete usually h 11 h to have special flours roods foods ch chemicals chemicals- for tests of the tho excretions and a I. e certain amount of ot attention from physicians ns and nurses regularly These things are arc all aU fairly expensive and nd the tho dia dla betic is better betl r of ort f J if ha he keeps ke himself him him- self elt fit to e earn rn his way than if It he ho wholly 01 oi on others ls Diabetes is a disease hz l' l ears ars no rio trifling If It it is treated badly 01 ot if if C the tho patient is indifferent aa as' to his 1113 care carer the results are prO unfortunate The Tie disease is in its Ui luise I se severity of ot reaction an an indication of ot the tho caro that Is ls being taken faken to combat it t Here again mankind is s' s invariably bf ot his Own ignorance and nd perhaps ps 0 of his o own o n stupidity lt Med Jed Ical science nce has provided the knowledge but f human beings s do donot donot not choose to avail n II them's themselves fully I of ot that knowledge |