The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition

Name: The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition
Author: Fletcher, Horace

Fletcher, Horace

Diet; Nutrition

First Scientific Recognition of the Principles of
  Economic Nutrition Outlined in “Glutton or Epicure.” H.F.           26

  Was Luigi Cornaro Right? by Ernest Van Someren                      27

  The Cambridge Tests.H.F.                                            47

  Experiments upon Human Nutrition, by Sir Michael
  Foster, K.C.B., M.P., F.R.S.                                        48

  Report of a Plan for the Institution of an International
  Inquiry into the Subject of Human
  Nutrition.H.F.                                                      53

  Proposal to Found an International Laboratory of
  Research for the Study of Nutrition in all Its
  Aspects. Recommended by the following                               55
  Professors of Physiology, etc.:

      Sir Michael Foster, Cambridge, England.
      Angelo Mosso, Turin, Italy.
      Hugo Kronecker, Bern, Switzerland.
      N. Zuntz, Berlin, Germany.
      Paul Heger, Brussels, Belgium.
      A. Dastre, Paris, France.
      Henry P. Bowditch, Harvard Medical School.
      Russell H. Chittenden, Yale University.
      William H. Welch, Johns Hopkins University.
      J.P. Pawlow, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

  Nationality and Scientific Titles of the above Board
  of Scientific Assessors                                             68

  Persistent Scientific Doubts.H.F.                                   69

  Physiological Economy in Nutrition, by Professor
  Russell H. Chittenden                                               72

  Introduction to Dr. Harry Campbell’s Contribution
  on the Importance of Mastication.H.F.                               92

  Observations on Mastication, by Harry Campbell,
  M.D., F.R.C.P.                                                      96

  Introduction to Professor Pawlow’s Demonstrations
  of Psychic Influence in Digestion.H.F.                             180

  Selected Lectures by Professor J.P. Pawlow (Dr.
  W.H. Thompson’s translation)                                       182

  Lecture IV.: General Scheme of an Innervation
  Mechanism--The Work of the Nervous Apparatus
  of the Salivary Glands--Appetite, the First
  and Most Potent Exciter of the Gastric Secretion                   182

  Lecture V.: Period of Occurrence and Importance
  of the Psychic or Appetite Juice in the Secretory
  Work of the Stomach--The Inefficiency of
  Mechanical Stimulation of the Nervous Apparatus
  of the Gastric Glands                                              212

  Lecture VIII.: Physiological Action and the Teaching
  of Instinct: Experiences of the Physician                          247

  Introduction to Dr. Cannon’s Papers on Movements
  in the Alimentary Canal studied by Means
  of the Röntgen Rays.H.F.                                           284

  Swallowing and Movements of the Stomach and
  Intestines, by W.B. Cannon, M.D.                                   285

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