Excerpt from Nutrition in Health and Disease: A Contribution to Hygiene and to Clinical MedicineMY Obj ect in writing the following Work has been to draw attention, forcibly, to the fact, constantly overlooked, that the imperfect performance of the digestive and nutritive functions leads, slowly but surely, to ill-health, to disease, and to death. In order to make myself perfectly intelligible, I have prefaced the pathological details into which I have entered with a brief account of normal digestion and nutrition, as elucidated by modern physiological and chemical research.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.