Foods for the fat : a treatise on corpulence, and its scientific dietary cure / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies.
- N. E. Yorke Davis
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Foods for the fat : a treatise on corpulence, and its scientific dietary cure / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![©pinions of tbe press ON THE FIRST EDITION OP FOODS FOR THE FAT. • A most comprehensive and useful little book. I strongly recommend it to tat people. '—Lady's Fictorial. ' To any corpulent person who is bewailing his condition we give this advice: Constdt Dr. Yorke-Davies.'—-Brtsaar. ' The author has brought to bear on the subject a very large amount of special medical study and observation of social ]ife.'—Pidman's Weehhj Kmos. ' Fresh and useful.'—iV^eiu Yorh Eerald. ' A treatment for the reduction of corpulency based upon different principles from those usually recommended, which are hard in the extreme.'—National Tribune (America). • A useful treatise on how to cure corpulency, which tends to curtail not only perfect health, but many of the pleasures of life.'—Science-Gossip. ' We hope this book will not suffer from its restricted title ; it deserves the reading of every class.'—Croydon Guardian. ' The only practical treatise we have seen on this subject written by a man who has had many years' experience in the medical world. Few plump people will take up Dr. Torke-Davies' book without being impressed with the exceed- ingly easy manner in which they may become small by degrees and beautifully less.'—St. Stephen's Review. ' Strikes us, as far as we have dipped into it, as being full of wisdom.' — Globe. ' The work before us may certainly be commended to the notice of the cor- pulent.'—Health. ' The advice contained in this book will be valuable to many.'—Queen. ' The fattest will rise up and call the doctor blessed.—The World. ' A useful and sensible guide to the prevention and cure of a state that may any time end in something far more serious than mere discomfort.'—Myra's Journal. ' The corpulent are almost as plentifully supplied with advisers as the rheumatic. Some of them are better avoided, but this cannot be said of the book of Dr. Yorke-Davies. ... If I were fat, which I am not, I should steer for some months with Dr. Yorke-Davies at the helm.'—Philanthropist.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20400019_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
