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A treatise on food and diet: with observations on the dietetical regimen suited for disordered states of the digestive organs; and an account of the dietaries of some of the principal metropolitan and other establishments for paupers, lunatics, criminals, children, the sick, etc / [Jonathan Pereira].

  • Pereira, Jonathan, 1804-1853.
Date:
1843
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Credit: A treatise on food and diet: with observations on the dietetical regimen suited for disordered states of the digestive organs; and an account of the dietaries of some of the principal metropolitan and other establishments for paupers, lunatics, criminals, children, the sick, etc / [Jonathan Pereira]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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