According to Everyday Health, in 1552 B.C. Hesy-Ra, an Egyptian physician, documented the first know symptoms of diabetes. He concluded that frequent urination was a leading symptom and people who had this disease would attract ants with the sweet urine. A few centuries later, a job was created where one would diagnose diabetes by tasting people’s urine and if it tasted sweet then that person had diabetes. This job was known as water tasters. In 1675 the word mellitus was added to the disease diabetes. Mellitus means honey. Around the 1800s, scientists finally came up with a chemical test to see if sugar was present in urine. Between 1700 and 1800 physicians started to learn more about the disease and figured out a few was to help