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Thread: School Project

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02-14-2006, 02:34 PM

someone

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I am a: Type 1

Join Date: Jan 2006

Location: Texas

Posts: 1,107

Quote:

Originally Posted by lelggren

I have recently learned that the ancient Egyptians knew about diabetes too, and they had their own way of finding out how much sugar a person was holding....They used to actually drink people's urine to find out how much sugar there was in it.

Somehow I do not believe that.. what is the point of knowing how much sugar there is if you cannot do anything about it? Are you going to tell me that the egyptians had man made insulin too?

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