Period Diabetes was [Sca-cooks] snarky remarks about eating habits

[Terry Decker]

One of my references specifies that the Greek diabetes (with carats over the
e's) from the verb "diabeinein" meaning roughly "to walk straddling a
siphon," fairly obviously a reference to the increased urination.

Apparently, diabetes appears in an English medical text as "diabete" around
1425.

I haven't checked the OED yet, so take the above with a grain of salt.

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