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Experiments and observations on the urine in a diabetes.

Med. Obs. Inqu., 5, 298-316. 1776.

Dobson proved that the sweetish taste of diabetic urine was produced by sugar, an observation following on Willis’s discovery of the sweetness of diabetic urine. He also discovered hyperglycemia.

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