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Robert A. Moore, M.D.; E. H. Cushing, M.D.

Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 1935;34(4):828-832.

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Despite reports of over 100 cases of diabetes insipidus with autopsy observations in the literature and the large number of experimental investigations which have been undertaken to elucidate the location of the center controlling water balance, there is confusion concerning the exact pathologic anatomy and physiology of this disease.

REPORT OF A CASE

History.

—A white man, a Hungarian Jew, was first admitted to the Lakeside Hospital on Aug. 25, 1930, two years before his death, to the service of one of us (E. H. C.). Dr. C. S. Beck and Dr. J. M. Hayman Jr. supplied the following clinical details. For five months preceding his admission the patient complained of polydypsia and polyuria. He had had nocturia, urinating two or three times nightly for years. The appetite had been good, and there had been a loss of less than 10 pounds (4.5 Kg.) in weight. Shortly before admission to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Cleveland

From the Institute of Pathology and the Department of Medicine, Western Reserve University and the Lakeside Hospital.

Footnotes
Presented at a meeting of the Cleveland Neurological Society on Nov. 9, 1932, and at a meeting of the Midwestern Neuro-Psychiatric Association in October 1933.