Talks to Nurses on Dietetics and Dietotherapy

Reprint of 1926 original. From the Foreword: "In hospitals, as in other institutions and in the world at large, nearly all people need an adequate general diet. The great demand for special diets comes partly from inadequacy of the general institutional or family diet and partly from general ignorance of food needs and food values. If the nurse is to follow efficiently the directions of the physicianj in regard to diet she will need to have only a thorough knowledge of dietetics and ability to express it in actual meals but also a real understanding of the condition of the tissues and organs in disease and of the effect of food upon it." 3 Parts: Food; Dietetics; Dietotherapy - Digestion and Disorders of the Digestive System-Metabolism. Steel gray cloth binding with black lettering on spine. 184 pages. NOTE: 6 pages of 'The Connecticut State Board of Examination and Registration of Nurses. Hartford, January 23 and 24, 1931" test prep questions and "McCombs' Diseases of Children" W.B. Saunders ordering postcard laid-in. Former owner's inked name and "Oct 31, 1939" date on front endpaper. Some inked doodle markings on facing front endpaper. Bumping to top and bottom of spine binding, elsewise a good, clean, tight, scholar/collector-worthy copy. GB1. …