Excerpt from Eating to Live: With Some Advice to the Gouty, the Rheumatic, and the Diabetic; A Book for Everybody It is a great mystery to me why the subject of diet holds such a subordinate position in the teach ings of our medical Colleges, when surely it 13 of equal if not greater importance than the giving of pills and potions. In the curriculum of our medical schools the subject of dietetics should hold a very prominent place, and such a chair should be established in all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.