On fluid meat : a new preparation of meat, especially adapted to weak stomachs, and for invalids generally, with remarks on food / by Stephen Darby.

  • Darby, Stephen.
Date:
1870
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Credit: On fluid meat : a new preparation of meat, especially adapted to weak stomachs, and for invalids generally, with remarks on food / by Stephen Darby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ON FLUID MEAT, &C. Any addition to the knowledge of human food, or any new variation imparted to it, must be interesting to all persons, but more especially to medical men at the present time when the regulation of diet has become an essential point of practice. I therefore trust it needs no apology or further preface in offering this small pamphlet to their notice and consideration. The separation of natural productions used as food into their proximate constituents has been very satisfactorily effected by chemistry, and the part performed by each in the function of nutri- tion, or in sustaining the temperature of the body, is to a great extent ascertained by the physiolo- gist. There are, however, many points scarcely recognized by the lay public, and perhaps not sufficiently enforced by the profession, otherwise it would be difficult to account for the very A 2