Abstract
THIS is a translation of the second edition of Prof. Gautier's book published in Paris in 1904. It contains a vast mass of useful information, and is a laudable attempt to be an exhaustive treatise on diet. It deals with the individual articles of food, animal, vegetable, and mineral; with the combinations of these that constitute dietaries; it contains (inter alia) discussions, lightened by homely phrases and apt illustrations, on the dietaries of different races, on vegetarianism, on the part played by food as a source of heat and energy, on the alcohol question; and finally treats of the part played by diet in the cure and alleviation of disease. Prof. Gautier's large experience would lead one to anticipate a useful book; the arrangement of subjects appears, however, to be rather confusing, and the translator, although as a rule he has done his work ably, is not always happy in rendering the original into acceptable English.
Diet and Dietetics.
By A. Gautier. Edited and translated by Dr. A. J. Rice-Oxley. Pp. xii + 552. (London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd., 1906.) Price 18s. net.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Diet and Dietetics . Nature 74, 380 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074380c0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/074380c0