Adjusting the quantity and quality of food intake to improve health status of an individual

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.

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

Nutrition and diet in health and disease / by James S. McLester.

Do you suffer from persistent health problems? : ... or are you just interested in better health... / The Good Health Company Ltd.

xi, 149 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Wheat, egg or milk free diets : with recipes and food lists / by Ray M. Balyeat ; assisted by Elmer M. Rusten and Ralph Bowen.

L'alimentation et les régimes chez l'homme sain et chez les malades / par Armand Gautier.

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Diet Therapy

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

Nutrition and diet in health and disease / by James S. McLester.

Do you suffer from persistent health problems? : ... or are you just interested in better health... / The Good Health Company Ltd.

Wheat, egg or milk free diets : with recipes and food lists / by Ray M. Balyeat ; assisted by Elmer M. Rusten and Ralph Bowen.

L'alimentation et les régimes chez l'homme sain et chez les malades / par Armand Gautier.

Diet Therapy

Images from the collections

Images about Diet Therapy

Works from the collections

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

Nutrition and diet in health and disease / by James S. McLester.

Do you suffer from persistent health problems? : ... or are you just interested in better health... / The Good Health Company Ltd.

Wheat, egg or milk free diets : with recipes and food lists / by Ray M. Balyeat ; assisted by Elmer M. Rusten and Ralph Bowen.

L'alimentation et les régimes chez l'homme sain et chez les malades / par Armand Gautier.

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