Fortunately, they had not injected Glucose just now. Joseph did not feel the slightest bit relieved; instead, he sank into severe anxiety.
In this era without insulin, Diabetes was an extremely troublesome condition.
Once blood sugar could not be controlled, the mild consequences were easy fatigue, emaciation, and itchy skin; the severe ones were festering limbs, blindness in both eyes, even death from kidney failure... He rubbed his cheeks hard in alarm, then remembered that as his parents grew older, there might well be other health problems. They had to undergo a comprehensive physical examination.
He immediately looked to the Chief imperial physician. "Mr. Bichat, I need you to conduct a detailed examination of the King and Queen at once, to rule out the possibility of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, Stroke, and the like."
Bichat exchanged a nervous glance with Potti and stammered, "Y-Your Highness, well, Strokes and cardiovascular lesions are almost impossible to detect before they occur...
"As for the hypertension you mentioned... I'm not quite sure, but it sounds like a disease?"
Joseph sighed helplessly. Right—this era did not even have the concept of hypertension yet, so how could it possibly be found through a physical examination? And Diabetes as well. If the Imperial Physicians had a complete theory regarding the disease, they would not have discovered the problem only after his mother fainted. Joseph turned to see that his mother had already fallen asleep on the stretcher. He quietly instructed Alexandra to take good care of her, then gestured for the Imperial Physicians to follow him outside the tent.
He went over the physical examination items from his previous life in his mind, then asked, "All right, let's put blood pressure aside for now.
"Then, is there currently any way to test blood lipids?"
The Imperial Physicians looked