The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition / by Horace Fletcher ; experimentally assisted by Dr. Ernest van Someren & Dr. Hubert Higgins.

  • Fletcher, Horace, 1849-1919.
Date:
[1904]
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Credit: The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition / by Horace Fletcher ; experimentally assisted by Dr. Ernest van Someren & Dr. Hubert Higgins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CONTENTS Page Introduction ix POSTINTRODUCTORY xxvii THE A. B.-Z. PRIMER Explanation 3 Some Pertinent Questions 4 A.-The Psychology of Nutrition 6 B.-The Mechanical and Chemical Physiology of Nutrition 8 Method 9 Z.-The True Chemical End-Point of Digestion . . 10 A. B.-Z. Figure 12 Bunching Hits and Personal Umpiring ... 13 HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORTING EVIDENCE Summary of the Foregoing Pages by an Experi- menter of One Month's Experience .... 19 First Scientific Recognition of the Principles of Economic Nutrition Outlined in Glutton or Epicure. H. F 26 Was Luigi Cornaro Right ? by Ernest Van Someren 27 The Cambridge Tests. H. F 47 Experiments upon Human Nutrition, by Sir Michael Foster, K. C. B., M. P., F. R. S 48 [iii]