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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![EXPLANATION THIS is a condensed presentment of a sub- ject of basic importance to everyone, supported by numerous appendices of great scientific weight. The special object of such brevity and ele- mentary treatment of the subject is: | To accentuate the facts showing how little we really have to know and do in con- nection with our sustenance in order to have the Natural Automatic Processes done rightly and healthfully. *y To permit busy persons who will take our dictum as gospel and our advice as sound to learn their necessary share in their own nutri- tion in the least possible time, leaving the less credulous and more curious to study the appen- dices at leisure and at will. ^ For some ten years it has been the ambition and the aim of the older and non-professional author to embody the fundamental essentials of human responsibility in self-understanding and self-management in not more than ten pages of coarse print that a child could understand and that mothers and teachers might commit to memory and never forget. This is only a first trial-attempt to fulfil the ambition and the aim; but the appendices show the assembling and concentration of scientific and militant forces which will not allow this sub- ject of primal human interest to remain longer the most neglected of educational departments. [3]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21024674_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
