"Dietetic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... vivifying heats, engenders a mighty vegetation, delighting the eye for more than half the year with endless undulations of grain and a great golden Eden of fruit. Its staples are solid blessings: rice, the Asiatic's staff of life; sugar, most popular of dietetic luxuries; indigo, most valuable of dyes; in the drier tracts, cotton, tobacco, coffee, a variety of palms (from one species of which sugar not unlike that of the maple is extracted), the wild olive, and the fig. Then there ...
— The English Governess At The Siamese Court • Anna Harriette Leonowens
... which aims above all at being an exporting country, cannot attain her desire without receiving imports to pay for her exports.[256] The physiological argument for an animal industry is unconvincing. The Japanese have a long dietetic history as vegetarians who eat a little fish and a few eggs. There exists in Japan an exceptionally ingenious variety of nitrogenous foods derived from the vegetable kingdom, and the Japanese have become accustomed ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott
... afforded little insight into the dieting of sick. All that chemistry can tell us is the amount of "carboniferous" or "nitrogenous" elements discoverable in different dietetic articles. It has given us lists of dietetic substances, arranged in the order of their richness in one or other of these principles; but that is all. In the great majority of cases, the stomach of the patient is guided by other principles of selection than merely the amount of carbon or nitrogen ...
— Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not • Florence Nightingale
... and sometimes fall out. These symptoms are prominent in cases of scurvy, and of chronic mercurial poisoning. In chronic lead-poisoning a characteristic blue line is seen on the gums near the dental margin. The treatment consists in removing the cause, improving the hygienic and dietetic conditions of the patient, and administering lime-juice, iodide of potash, quinine, or cod-liver oil, according to the cause. Antiseptic mouth-washes and dentifrices are also indicated. Chlorate of potash, being excreted in the ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... more alarming than a new dish, but we can see in a reversion to Apician cookery methods only a dietetic benefit accruing to this so-called white race ...
— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius
... I am treating the subject rather from an economic than a dietetic point of view, and he will not venture to put my abstemiousness to the test unless he ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau |
