Both Uses of
diabetes
in
Running in the Family
- It was only in the afternoons when, dressed in sarong and vest, he went out for walks over his property (part of a mysterious treatment for diabetes), that he seemed to become a real part of the landscape around him.†
p. 56.7diabetes = any of several metabolic disorders characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood and marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst
- Most of them were hot tempered—though they blamed diabetes for this whenever possible.†
p. 57.1 *