Short note on Diabetes Insipidus: An historical aspects
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Abstract
The contributions to our present knowledge and understanding of diabetes insipidus are briefly surveyed. Though a disease presenting with polyuria and thirst had been recognized since Antiquity, it was not until. Century the distinction was made between diabetes insipidus and diabetes mellitus. At the beginning of the Century almost nothing was known about the function of the pituitary. It was generally believed that diabetes insipidus was a renal disease 1