Excerpt from Diet for the Sick: A Treatise on the Values of Foods, Their Application, to Special Conditions of Health and Disease, and on the Best Methods of Their PreparationThe writer's experience at Montauk Point during the months of August and September of this year has been supplemented by valuable information obtained from surgeons and nurses at that hospital-camp, where opportunities for the study of typhoid and malarial fever were only too abundant.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.