Arthur Scott Donkin (6 July 1828 – 3 September 1883) was a British physician and writer known for his research on diabetes.
[6] Whilst a physician to the Sunderland Infirmary he reported that his diabetic patients had a "complete and permanent recovery" in 15 days on a diet of skim-milk.
[4] In 1872, his book The Skim-Milk Treatment of Diabetes and Bright's Disease was negatively reviewed in the Edinburgh Medical Journal.
The reviewer noted that Donkin only recorded the results of seven cases of diabetes and in none of these was the patient restored to a good state of health to return to an ordinary mixed diet.
[6] A 12-page review of Donkin's On the Relation Between Diabetes and Food was published in The Glasgow Journal, in 1876.