A Handy Book on Food and Diet in Health and Disease

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A Handy Book on Food and Diet in Health and Disease

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.

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creator: Cameron, Sir Charles Alexander (1830-1921)

date: 1871

format: PRI

identifier: 613.2_CAME

coverage: 96pp

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