Practical Dietetics: with Reference to Diet in Health and Disease

Original blue and white striped gingham binding, with pasted title on front board and spine. Spine title shows wear, and spine ends are frayed. Hinges are beginning to split, but everything is still intact. Some dirt and spotting on boards, and also to the edges of the pages, perhaps dampstain. Ownership information of Evelyn L. Backus on front pastedown. This 16th edition contains a preface noting new content regarding the newly discovered vitamins D and E, new material on the mineral requirements of the body, and revisions to food values, and diet and pregnancy. Sections include principles of nutrition and food preparation; practical application of principles of nutrition; dieto-therapy, or feeding the sick in the hospital, in disease, and in special conditions. Some of the diseases for which diets are discussed include typhoid and scarlet fevers, whooping cough, measles, acute articular rheumatism, diabetes mellitus, gout, pellagra, scurvy, tuberculosis, pneumonia, bronchitis, gastritis, enteritis, dysentery, jaundice, cirrhosis, gall-stones, nephritis, kidney stones, neurasthenia, insomnia, epilepsy, eczema, acne, psoriasis, urticaria, boils, and more. The publication costs of this book may have been supplemented by 42 pages of illustrated advertising following the index. From the nursing history collection of Sarah Abrams. Hardcover, good condition. 718 pages, octavo. …