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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![SOME PE RTIN E NT QUESTIONS ILL the reader not ask himself the follow- ing questions ? w I How much do I know about my own nutri- *• tion? ^ Do I know the particular need and purpose *% of my last meal and what it is likely to accomplish? -j Considering my body as an engine, would **• I accept myself as a competent engineer on my own examination and confession? a Were I an iron and steel automobile, instead ^* of a flesh and blood automobile, which I really am, could I get a license for myself, as a chauffeur, to run myself with safety, based upon my knowledge of my own mechanism and the theory and development of my power? q Were I an owner of valuable live-stock, •*■ would I employ a farm-hand or a stable man, even at so low a wage as fifteen dollars a month, who knew as little about the proper feeding of my animals as I know about the proper feeding of myself and my children? sc Should I employ such an ignorant attend- ant for my live-stock, and catch him worrying them during their feeding, and hurrying them away from their fodder to hitch them up for work, would I not have the man arrested for cruelty to animals? And yet this is what is habitually done to children! [4]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21024674_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
