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Description edit
Here, Walter Gratzer offers a marvelous smorgasbord of stories taken from the history of nutrition, providing an engaging account of the struggle to find the ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have waylaid the unwary. Gratzer recounts this history with... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Liebig: Add a description of this character.
- Lavoisier
- Goldberger
- James Lind
- Fletcher
- M. Dumas
- Galen
- Harriette Chick
- Mccollum
- Boerhaave
- Sylvester Graham
- Mulder
- Van Helmont
- Cicely Williams
- Pettenkofer
- Voit
- Elsie Widdowson
- Macfadden
- Hassall
- Mccance
- Benjamin Thompson
- Szent-gyorgyi
- Berzelius
- Hassan
- Eijkman
- Claude Bernard
- Atkins
- Spallanzani
- Atwater
- Cook
- Chevreul
- Pirquet
- Priestley
- Seguin
- Trotter
- Saint-martin
- Frederick Gowland Hopkins
- Humphry Davy
- Anson
- Hippocrates
- Vesalius
- Paracelsus
- Pringle
- Haig
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- United States
- Europe
- England
- Britain
- Germany
- France
- Rumford
- Paris
- America
- New York
- Vienna
- Cambridge
- Munich
- Italy
- Africa
- Canada
- Berlin
- India
- Zurich
- Boston
- Usa
- Holland
- Hungary
- Oxford
- China
- Utrecht
- Born
- East Indies
- Pellagra
- Boussingault
- Edinburgh
- Ireland
- Rome
- Leiden
- Chicago
- Caribbean
- Harvard
- Haslar
- Massachusetts
- Japan
- Spain
- Salisbury
- Brussels
First Sentence edit
On an autumn day in 1919 Dr Harriette Chick from the Lister Institute in London, and her colleague, Dr Elsie Dalyell, arrived by train in Vienna, and were greeted by Professor Clemens von Pirquet of Vienna University.
Authors & Contributors edit
- W. B. Gratzer (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0192806610
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0192806610
Page Count: 304
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 613.209
Subjects edit
- Books › Professional & Technical › Medical › Basic Sciences › Nutrition
- Books › Medicine › Special Topics › Nutrition
- Books › Cooking, Food & Wine › Gastronomy › History
- Books › Science › History & Philosophy › History of Science
- Books › Medicine › Special Topics › History
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Nutrition
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