On food : its varieties, chemical composition, nutritive value, comparative digestibility, physiological functions and uses, preparation, culinary treatment, preservation, adulteration, etc. : being the substance of four Cantor lectures, delivered before the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in the months of January and February, 1868 / by H. Letheby.

Henry Letheby

Date:: 1872

Credit: On food : its varieties, chemical composition, nutritive value, comparative digestibility, physiological functions and uses, preparation, culinary treatment, preservation, adulteration, etc. : being the substance of four Cantor lectures, delivered before the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in the months of January and February, 1868 / by H. Letheby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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The rapid sale, within a few months, of a large im- pression of the first edition of this work has been a suffi- cient inducement—to use the words of Mr. Accum—for the publication of a second edition ; and the delay in responding to the call of the public for a reprint of the work has been occasioned by the difficulty in finding time, amidst continued professional engagements, for a careful examination of the pages of the former edition, with a view to corrections and additions, in order that the work might be even more acceptable to the public. This, the author has performed to the best of his abi- lity, although, from repeated interruptions in the course of his work, he is conscious of the difficulty of careful supervision, and for this he still asks the reader for his kind indulgence. London, April, 1872.

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