This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
In diabetes insipidus, or "polyuria," when there is an excessive flow of limpid but non-saccharine urine, alum deserves further trial, though the malady is anomalous and often is uncontrolled by any remedies. In true diabetes a partial and temporary benefit has been derived by some patients for whom I have prescribed it.
 
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