Abstract
A light or even a heavy glycosuria is not an uncommon finding in the routine examination of patients. In Table I, I have collected references to such findings as have been reported by various observers in the recent literature. Noteworthy among these observations are those in which the condition had been observed over very prolonged periods, viz., from 3 to 35 years. Various terms have been applied to this non-diabetic type of glycosuria. Thus it has been called diabetes innocens; renal diabetes; renal glycosuria. Such terms as the last two of these are misnomers since glycosuria is always renal, being dependent upon the renal threshold as well as the glycemic level. Glycosuria innocens is a better term since it indicates at least the non-diabetic character of the glycosuria—but for this very reason, since whenever glycosuria is present it is imperative to determine whether or not it is due to a diabetic condition, I have adopted the term non-diabetic glycosuria as most applicable to glycosuria of this type.
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