It seems appropriate at this time, after four years or more of trial, to review the therapeutic results that have been obtained with the Allen treatment for diabetes, which has received such universal adoption by the medical profession. With this in view I am going to discuss certain aspects of the treatment of diabetes, and with the help of charts illustrate some of the results obtained during the past four years, during which time we have treated patients according to the general principles laid down by Dr. Allen.
It is not necessary to go into a detailed description of the modern treatment, as it has received a great deal of attention in medical literature during the past four years and the reader, doubtless, is familiar with it. I have been much impressed, however, by the fact that, while many practitioners who have employed the fasting treatment have quite generally appreciated