The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition / by Horace Fletcher ; experimentally assisted by Dr. Ernest van Someren & Dr. Hubert Higgins.

  • Horace Fletcher
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[1904]
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Credit: The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition / by Horace Fletcher ; experimentally assisted by Dr. Ernest van Someren & Dr. Hubert Higgins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    best. What we are trying to learn is, what man may do, under favourable conditions of knowledge and confidence, to relieve his body of the strain of energy-taxing labour in dispos- ing of the waste which any excess of food imposes. It is a constructive experiment and not a mere statistical measurement. Appreci- ation and applause assist; doubt and ridicule obstruct. The soldiers and physiologists are too busy studying indigestion and possible proteid poison- ing and what-not-other causes of intemperance, disease, and suffering to ask you to assist in spreading only serious report and right sug- gestion relative to the importance and purport of the investigation, but it is my privilege to ask it for the general good. Just another word of introduction and then will follow some postintrodnctory coincidences relative to the work in hand, and then an attempt to lay out a ten-page chart of the personal responsibility in the care of the body and the nourishment of the mind by aid of an economic and most satisfactory nutrition, so as to make conservation of energy as easy as pos- sible and life well worth the living. The sci- entific support from the pens of professional observers is, however, the real meat of the [XX]
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