The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition / by Horace Fletcher ; experimentally assisted by Dr. Ernest van Someren & Dr. Hubert Higgins.
- Horace Fletcher
- Date:
- [1904]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![Duodenum, the, 303, 315, 356, 360 Dyspepsia, dangers of, xv; might cease to exist, 35 Eat, how to, 19 Eating, too much, ix; indiscretions of, x, xix, xxix, 29, 95, 135 ; too fast, 20; systematic inattention to, 259, 260; English have made a cult of, 261 Economic nutrition. See Nutrition, economic Efferent nerves, 184, 185 Efficiency, human, the measure of, xxx; research into causes for, 54 Eggs, experiments with, 38, 43, 78, 95, 100, 137, 277 Encyclopaedia Britannica, the, 27 Enemata, the, 367, 379, 380, 388 Energy, the minimum transforma- tion of, 59 , potential, 59 Engine, an, the body considered as, 4» 23 English, the, have made a cult of the art of eating, 261 Emetic, an, 325 Emotion, inhibition of stomach move- ments during, 337 ; effect of, 383- 384, 388 Empiricism, medical practice largely based upon, 52 Esquimaux, the, 118, 123, 125, 126 Esselmont, experiments of, 383 Evolution, Nature's plan of, xi Ewald, experiments of, 313, 314 Excess, habitual, confirmed by ex- periments, ix Excrements. See Digestion-ash, the Excretia. See Digestion-ash, the Exercise, necessity of, xxix [4 Faeces, the, 374. See also Diges- tion-ash Falk, Dr., 284 ; theory of deglutition of, 286 Fallopius, on the functions of the stomach, 302 Farinaceous food, 395 Fasola, experiments of, 378 Fat, potatoes need not produce, 21; 78, 79, 80, 85, 86, 95, 98, 100; ex- periments upon, 271, 272, 274 Faucial tonsils, the, influence of masti- cation upon,148 Fear, effect of, 388 Fearthought, 404 Featherman, 123 Fibrin, 276 Flesh food, reduction of craving for, 50 Fletcher, Horace, Dr. Van Someren's comments upon the case of, 30- 31 ; his experiments confirmed by Marckwald, 46; Sir Michael Fos- ter's comments, 48 ; the Cambridge tests, 49-52; the Middletown test, 54-55» 60; the Yale test, 75-91 Flour, 132, 392, 393, 395 Food, mal-assimilation of, x; length of time for chewing, xxxii; Dr. Kellogg's estimate of amount habit- ually used, xxxiv; mouth-treatment of, 5 ; how to masticate and swal- low, 8, 9, 31, 32; actual process of mastication described, 32-34; im- portant bearing upon the economy of the body of its treatment in the mouth, 48-49; its function to supply material from which the body de- rives necessary energy, 72; any ex- cess an incubus, 72-73 ; classified under three heads, 78; in excess, 14]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21024674_0458.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
