Excerpt from Food and Hygiene: An Elementary Treatise Upon Dietetics and Hygienic Treatment
The Degeneration of the Race has been much talked and written about in recent years. Undoubtedly one of the most important methods of building up the Race and of checking deterioration is by due attention to the Food of the people. Especially important is the food of infants and children. It needs no defence when one asserts that deterioration may begin in the cradle, and that the proper establishment of a sound constitution should be begun there. Of no less importance is the dietetic and hygienic treatment of all people whose health is broken down and whose constitution is undermined by disease. It behoves the medical practitioner, as well as the patient, to give quite as much attention to these points in the treatment of disease as to the choice and administration of drugs.
In this volume an attempt is made to give an account of the most particular points in connection with food, air, and water, which are of interest to the patient or medical practitioner. The composition and character of the foods is given from many sources; that of the medicinal waters and the particulars about climates chiefly from the official reports issued from the respective health resorts. The introductory chapters give a resume of the proximate principles in food and their digestion and assimilation. The food required by healthy persons at various ages and under different circumstances is also considered.
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