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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![in the industries, 124; the instinct of, 126; the causation of inefficient, 129; less opportunity than formerly for, 130-133 ; defective apparatus for, 133 ; affected by individual dif- ferences, 134 ; tends to diminish amount of food consumed, 136; most effective way to secure starch digestion, 145 ; effect upon the nasal passages, naso-pharynx, and faucial tonsils, 148; fast becoming a lost art, 157 ; means of insuring ade- quate, 164, 389; experimental in- vestigation of the influence of, 39i Masticatory instinct, the, 126-129 ——muscles, the, 104; influence of their contraction on local circulation of blood and lymph, 107, 148 Matri, 128 Meadville, Penn., 396 Measles, 149 Meat, 78 —- broth, 266; an important chem- ical excitant of gastric sec.etion, 266, 267 extract, 268 juice, 268 Mechanical stimulus, great impor- tance assigned to, 257 Medical practice, largely based upon empiricism, 52 science, not possessed of final information concerning questions of nutrition, 52 Medicine, ideal only when it can take its proper position, 249; physiology can make no pretence to guide the field of, 251 ; to what it will at length grow, 251; treats too lightly the loss of appetite, 256 Melanesia, 12S Melanesians, the, 120 [4 Meltzer, Dr., 2S4; experiments of, 294, 296, 297, 298 Mendel, Dr. Lafayette B., 69 Mendel Pass, bei Bozen, Sud Tirol, Austria, experiments at, 26 Mental energy, 41 state, 12 ; its effect upon diges- tion and nutrition, 74 Menticulture, physical and mental equipments necessary to promote, 7 Menticulture, xxi, xxiv Metabolism, 37; determination of, 40; calorimetric trial-balance measurement of, 54 Micro-organisms, 40; destroyed by acid gastric juices, 41 Middletown, Conn., experiments at, 54 Milk, how to drink, 9; experiments in drinking, 36, 38-39, 78, 84, 93, 94, 268; takes a special position among foods, 272 ; the three prop- erties of, 273 ; its relation to the secretion of the digestive juices, 274, 275, 276, 277 pudding, 97, 143, 172 Modern Medicine, 389, 391 Modoc Indians, the, 123 Moist foods, 97 Moritz, experiments of, 324, 328, 332 Mosso, Dr. Prof. Angelo, 67, 68 284, 285 Mouth, the, should do all it can, 93, 180; examination of, 174-179; rins- ing* f79: mechanical and chemical stimulation of the cavity of, 201, 285, b86 breathing, evils of, 151-153 discrimination, 94 thoroughness, 8 treatment, of food, 5, 12, 92; I preliminary necessity of easy diges- tion, iSo, 389 19]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21024674_0463.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
