Fruit and bread : a scientific diet / by Gustav Schlickeysen ; translated from the German, by M.L. Holbrook, with an appendix.

  • Schlickeysen, Gustav.
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[1877]
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Credit: Fruit and bread : a scientific diet / by Gustav Schlickeysen ; translated from the German, by M.L. Holbrook, with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    FRUIT AND BREAD. PART I. ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARGUMENT. No task more closely concerns the life and health of man than that of providing for his nourishment. The consciousness of this necessity lies deeply rooted, not only in man himself, hut in every other living creature, and is the cause of that “ struggle for ex- istence” which prevails throughout the en- tire organic world. But experience has shown that it is by no means a matter of indifference how and wherewith this nour- ishment is effected, for upon the quality and quantity of our food depend in a marked degree our physical and moral condition. It is therefore highly important that we pos- sess a scientific foundation on which to estab-