Nutrition and specific therapy

Front matter

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Preface

The many demands during the past seven years for a book, based on my dietetic lectures to students, have prompted me to gather my material, and publish it in this little volume.

The book is the result of my own convictions and experiments, based, except where the author is quoted, on scientific facts and the researches of many of the best authorities of the world.

To the reader, the chapters discussing the cooking of foods, the value of milk as an article of diet both for children and adults (infants excepted), and the chapter on a meat diet, may appear somewhat reactionary. But to these readers I wish to say that it is due to my somewhat radical convictions that my experience with diet patients has been successful.

I have endeavored to present the subject matter in a very concise and practical form, and to give some information which possibly cannot be found as yet in other books of this nature. With this in mind, the chapters have been written on Auto-intoxication, Bacteriology of the Digestive Tract, Reforming the Intestinal Flora, and Vit amines, subjects which are of vital importance taken in conjunction with the study of nutrition. The hope is entertained that these chapters, together with the chapters on Diet in the Common Diseases, and Infants' Diets; Children's Diets, based on many of the most recent researches, if not convincing — either through omission or error on my part — may prove to stimulate interest and many questions. The remaining chapters have been planned to lend interpretation to these subjects.

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I wish to express my deepest appreciation of the great inspiration that my husband's companionship afforded me in my work, and of the reports on clinical cases, from his pathological laboratory, based on the results of my diets, — without these much of the material in this book would have been impossible.

Dorothy E. Lane

Contents

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I. Explanation of the Subject of Nutrition . 1

II. Food Preparation 20