Treatment of Diabetes by Rennet.—Dr. Gray, of Glasgow, lias lately
treated a case of this disease, of at last twelve months’ standing, by
means of rennet, as prepared for the dairy, in doses of a teaspoonful
three times of a day, in which dietetic treatment had been of only par-
tial benefit, and various medicines of little use. He was led to give it
from the action of rennet out of the body in converting sugar into lactic
acid, which, according to Liebig, is one of the principles of the organic
world, which can support respiration by being oxidated in the lungs;
while sugar cannot be oxidated by them, and is therefore thrown off as
excrementitial by the kidneys.—N. Y. Med. Times, fc'eb. 1853.