1843 A Treatise on Food and Diet: With Observations on the Dietetical Regimen Suited for Disordered States of the Digestive Organs

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. A detailed treatise, being a full account of the chemical elements of foods and their classifications. Providing an important study into the food required for a full and complete diet, and the proportions of different food types. With chapters on the chemical elements of foods, alimentary principles, compound aliments, vegetable foods, the digestibility of foods, the nutritive qualities of foods, times of eating, and dietaries. Written by Jonathan Pereira, an English pharmacologist and the author of the Elements of Materia Medica, a standard work. With sixteen leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear.