Diet in health and disease / by Julius Friedenwald and John Ruhräh.

  • Friedenwald, Julius, 1866-1941.
Date:
1913
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Diet in health and disease / by Julius Friedenwald and John Ruhräh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. This book has been prepared to meet the needs of the general practitioner, hospital interne, and medical student, as well as for a reference handbook for training-schools. The aim of the book is entirely practical. We have en¬ deavored to give a reasonably concise account of the different kinds of foods, their composition and uses, and also to set forth the principles of diet both in health and disease. The greater part of the book is devoted to the sick, and we have tried to tell the doctor how to feed his patient. We have gone over the literature of the subject, much of which is inaccessible to the general practitioner, and have given what seems to us to be the most useful. We trust that the book is simple enough to be used for rapid reference by the busy practitioner, and that there is sufficient detail to make the way clear for the medical student and the uninitiated hospital interne. Wre have gathered to¬ gether many diet-lists and recipes, which we trust will be of service both to the physician and to the nurse. In the preparation of this work we have consulted many books and journal articles, and we are under obligation to the many authors whose names are mentioned throughout the book in connection with their contributions to the science of dietetics. We are especially indebted to Dr. W. O. Atwater and his collaborators for much valuable material. We wish to express our thanks to the publishers, Messrs. W. B. Saunders & Co., for the courtesy they have shown in its preparation.
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