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Publication outlining an account by Cameron on the state of knowledge relative to the consumption of food and its nutritive values. Chapter headings include: nature and functions of food; proximate constituents of food; vegetable foods; animal food - composition of flesh; mineral food; stimulants and condiments; adulteration of food; diseased meat; nutritive value of food; dietaries; cooking food; digestion; dietetics, or regiment; dyspepsia, or indigestion. Also includes advertisments for various foods and publications. Dedicated to'Sir Dominic J. Corrigan, Bart., M.D., M.P., Ex-President of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland; Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen'. Includes advertisments for various foods and publications. Published by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London & New York.