Nutrition in health and disease : a contribution to hygiene and to clinical medicine / James Henry Bennet.

  • Bennet, James Henry, 1816-1891.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Nutrition in health and disease : a contribution to hygiene and to clinical medicine / James Henry Bennet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    meaning. It appears to me that, in disordered nutritive states, all, or nearly all, may occur and constantly do occur under the same circumstances. If such is the case, the prevailing views in this very important department of pathology may possibly admit of simplification, and be thereby rendered more practical. It is with no slight hesitation that I have made an attempt in this direction ; but I have gathered courage from the reflection that the generalizations of a practical physician, who is constantly seeing and treating chronic as well as acute disease, may not be with- out some value, even in a field occupied by much more learned labourers. I trust that I shall not be considered presump- tuous, if I express the hope that this little work may contribute to convince my medical brethren of the imperative necessity of studying dietetics in connection with physiology and chemistry. Apart from such a basis, all dietetic views and regulations must be fallacious. No medical practitioner is, in reality, capable of regulating the diet of his patients in a sound and satisfactory manner, unless he know and bear in mind the chemical nature of the food that he recommends, what it is destined to effect,