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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![received by the owner of the canal, and the product of the waste is accessible only to him in most cases. To learn all that anybody knows or surmises about what happens in the inside channel of the alimentary canal is less difficult than learning the multiplication table up to ten times ten; and learning to read symptoms, and to inspect intelligently the waste product of digestion and tissue destruction, comes naturally to the student as a result of attaining the conventional physio- logical knowledge. When one becomes his own food and feed- ing scientist, he also becomes his own best doc- tor and hygienic adviser, receiving symptoms immediately at first hands and not depending upon defective description and unsympathetic analysis. It is a means of hitting at the causes of one's own disabilities and of being able to act as one's own umpire in determining the effect of the hits. It means also the advantage of the team- work of the combined and concentrated at- tention of professional scientists and personal scientists in learning and curing the causes of human disability, of which this book is an expo- nent and a present-day brief history, as related to the nutrition problem. In its broad application to the interrelation of the physical, psychical, personal, and social necessities of environment, as explained in the [14]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21024674_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
