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8vo, pp. xii, 219, [1] blank, [12] 'Appendix' comprising advertisements; with seventeen text illustrations; title-page a little foxed, with further light foxing, browning and soiling throughout; with old tape remains and residue on front and rear pastedowns; in the original publisher's cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt (though somewhat faded), covers ruled in blind, head and tail of spine bumped, covers spotted, soiled, sunned and dulled, joints and extremities lightly rubbed and bumped. First edition of one of a number of works published by the noted social reformer Alice Marion Hart (nee Rowlands). 'In presenting this book to the public I am actuated by the hope that it will prove useful to those who are sick, and to those who have to nurse, feed, and prescribe for the sick, and that it will aid the healthy to preserve health. Believing that lay readers will act with greater intelligence if they understand the rationale of a diet, I have briefly described in each case the accepted causation of the disease, and the reasons for the special diet prescribed. Medical men will also, I trust, find the dietaries and recipes practically useful, and likely to save them trouble in directing the dietetic treatment of patients' (preface).
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