sugar diabetes

English

Noun

sugar diabetes (uncountable)

(informal, dated) Diabetes mellitus.
- 1862, "A Good Deed Requires No Praise" (classified ad), New York Times, Jun. 18, p. 5,
  In February, 1861, I was afflicted with the sugar diabetes.
- 1972, "A Medicine Man Heard at Parley," New York Times, 21 May, p. 21,
  In the Southwest there are some 35 curanderos like Mr. Cruz, who says he has treated with success patients with arthritis and sugar diabetes.

References

“sugar diabetes” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
“sugar diabetes” in Microsoft's Encarta World English Dictionary, North American Edition (2007)
"sugar diabetes" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)

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