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Diet Therapy

Images

  • A doctor recommending a specific diet to his obese patient's servant. Wood engraving by G. Browne, 1899.
  • An overweight patient prescribed two alternative treatments by his doctor - nine months yachting or a diet - he chooses to go yachting. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1888.
  • Public exposure, analysis, etc., of advertised remedies : patent medicines and foods showing their estimated costs, analytical contents, and various claims / copyright by the Advertised Remedies Exposure Campaign ... organiser- Wm. T. Davison.
  • An English doctor instructs his English patient not to eat as he does. Coloured engraving by Louis-Franc̦ois Charon.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The diabetic life : its control by diet and insulin a concise practical manual for practitioners and patients / by R.D. Lawrence.

    Lawrence, R. D. (Robert Daniel), 1892-1968. | Date: 1927
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    Nutrition and diet in health and disease / by James S. McLester.

    McLester, James S. (James Somerville), 1877-1954. | Date: 1943
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    Wheat, egg or milk free diets : with recipes and food lists / by Ray M. Balyeat ; assisted by Elmer M. Rusten and Ralph Bowen.

    Balyeat, Ray M. (Ray Morton), 1889-1961. | Date: [1933], ©1933
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    L'alimentation et les régimes chez l'homme sain et chez les malades / par Armand Gautier.

    Gautier, Armand, 1837- | Date: 1904
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    How I cured-- : the true stories of fourteen "incurables" / [edited] by Stanley Lief.

    | Date: [1939?]
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