The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., etc. / by R.T. Trall.

  • Trall, R. T. (Russell Thacher), 1812-1877.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., etc. / by R.T. Trall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    |j refit** The leading objects of this work are, to pre- sent, in the smallest possible compass, a summary of the principles and facts, in chemistry and phys- iology, which apply to the philosophy of diet; and to furnish such as are not familiar with the details of cooking on hygienic principles, plain formulas for preparing an ample variety of dishes, with due regard to the laws of life and health. Food is one of the elements of the materia medica in our hydropathic system, and in import- ance is second to no other—not even water. A vast number of chronic diseases are wholly in- curable, however judiciously all the other appli- ances of Water-Cure are managed, without proper