This is as far back as I got with this disease. This is a

very rare disease...you might be able to find more on it

by looking under rare disease and diabetes insipidus

This is a government site...so I could not post a link to it:

OMIM (John Hopkins) Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man

It states: One of the most dramatic examples of familial diabetes insipidus is that reported by Adolph Weil (1884) of Heidelberg. { He reported it, but does not say if he is the

one who discovered it. It doesn't have his report here or

mention what he discovered about it}

I am so sorry I am not able to find anything on the origin,

history, or background of diabetes insipidus.

These are the links I found on the disease itself and

one in a history catagory. I think if you get in touch with

the Diabetes Insipidus Foundation about this...of which I provided a link to here, they may be able to answer your question and possibly give you more information:

http://www.diabetesinsipidus.org/

I've listed these links just in case you would like to look at

them>

http://www.historymania.com/american_his...

http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/...

This is the history of another type of Diabetes, I do not

know if this would give you a clue.

http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/1996/...

There is one other thing that I thought of, if you keep

searching: History or Origins of Diseases of Endocrinology

That is the best I can do. I hope you have success with it.