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Presentation of CaseA seventy-four-year-old woman was admitted to the Emergency Ward in coma.The patient was known to have had diabetes for twenty-four years. Since she did not follow a careful diet or take insulin regularly numerous hospital admissions were necessitated by unregulated diabetes. Three weeks previously she entered another hospital for ten days because of furunculosis of the vulva and buttocks. At that time the blood sugar was 350 and 266 mg. per 100 ml. With a diabetic diet and 56 units of regular insulin daily she improved, the blood sugar level fell to normal, and she was . . .
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