PRACTICAL DIETETICS. 



IVITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DIET IN DISEASE. 



By W. OILMAN THOMPSON, M.D., 



Professor of Medicine in the Cornell Medical College of the City of New York ; Visiting 

 Physician to the Presbyterian and Bellevue Hospitals, New York. 



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" This is at once the best and most exhaustive book upon this subject with 

 which we are fanniliar. The best because, in the first place, it is written by a 

 teacher of therapeutics who knows the needs of the practicing physician, and 

 yet who has taught in previous years as a professor of physiology all that one 

 needs to know in regard to the principles of digestion and assimilation. For 

 this reason the author is unusually well qualified to prepare a useful manual, but 

 it is not until one has perused the volume that he thoroughly grasps the scope 

 and depth of the manner in which Dr. Thompson has treated his subject." 



— Therapeutic Gazette. 



"The subject of the dietetic treatment of disease is not an attractive one. 

 This fact explains, no doubt, the comparatively little attention given it in college 

 curriculum and daily study. When one proceeds to examine the valuable con- 

 tributions to this subject, the scientific investigations which have been made by 

 the United States Department of Agriculture at various experiment stations in 

 all parts of the country, he is convinced that it is high time to look into the 

 matter pretty thoroughly. This book is of value for its summary of the latter 

 and its application of the knowledge to the treatment of the disease." 



— Brooklyn Medical Journal. 



" The portion of the work on diet in the various diseases must prove of much 

 value to the practitioner who has sought in vain in so-called ' practices of medi- 

 cine ' for exhaustive discussion of diets for special pathological conditions. In 

 giving applicable diets few diseases are omitted, and the author not only gives 

 his own views, but quotes those of others, especially with regard to such con- 

 ditions as obesity, rheumatism, gout, and diabetes, in which proper feeding is of 

 such paramount importance. The volume contains nine full-page plates." 



• — Medical Review of Reviews. 



" In the seven years which have elapsed since the first appearance of this 

 standard text-book there have not been the many and important changes in 

 dietetics that other departments of our therapeutics have undergone. Never- 

 theless, Dr. Thompson has revised much that was published in the first edition, 

 and has introduced into this one the results of more recent studies in the 

 economic values of various dietaries. The general arrangement of the work is 

 unchanged." — A'ew York Medical Journal. 



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