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Malik
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Endocrine fellow @Stanford University. Medicine, music & pointless banter. Nomad from 🇵🇰 ✈ 🇺🇸. 🏖 رل تے گیے آں پر چس ڈاڈہی آئ اے
Sep 22, 2019 • 13 tweets • 25 min read
History of Diabetes. A thread.

1550 B.C: “Too Great Emptying Of The Urine”

First ever recorded mention of diabetes in Ebers Papyrus, written around 1550 BC, excavated in 1862 AD from an ancient grave in Egypt.

#EndoTwitter #Diabetes #MemoryLane @JoyYWu @StanfordMed @MedscapeEndo @TheEndoSociety @Endocrine_News Around the same time, Indian physicians seemed to stumble upon a mysterious illness with "Honey Urine" which attracted ants and flies. They started to use the ants to diagnose the illness.

#EndoTwitter #Diabetes #MemoryLane