TY  - JOUR
T1  - DIabetes
AU  - Dolger H
Y1  - 1949/02/26
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900260049020
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 603
EP  - 603
VL  - 139
IS  - 9
N2  - To the Editor: 
    An unfortunate error appeared in The Journal of January 1 which tended to reflect on the validity of my reported observations on vascular damage in diabetes mellitus. Dr. Elliott P. Joslin in his article, "Furtherance of Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus" (page 1) cited my study of 200 patients but inadvertently referred to the number as 20!In critically evaluating these observations, Dr. Joslin unfortunately used as his source an abstract of a preliminary report rather than the more detailed paper which appeared in The Journal on Aug. 16, 1947. With respect to the manner in which the data were obtained, a point which seems to have disturbed Dr. Joslin, readers of The Journal will recall that "the patients were selected from the Metabolism Clinic of the Mount Sinai Hospital and private practice on the basis of detailed medical records dating from the onset of diabetes, with emphasis
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900260049020
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900260049020
ER  -