Excerpt from Eating and Drinking: A Popular Manual of Food and Diet in Health and Disease The two volumes have a mutual dependence, and to a cer tain extent supplement each other. The terms positive and negative food, which I first sug gested a few years since, I have here retained, although they have never been formally presented to the profession. The distinction which they imply between the respective action of ordinary food and stimulants and narcotics, though not complete or satisfactory, is yet convenient and clear ...
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Excerpt from Eating and Drinking: A Popular Manual of Food and Diet in Health and Disease The two volumes have a mutual dependence, and to a cer tain extent supplement each other. The terms positive and negative food, which I first sug gested a few years since, I have here retained, although they have never been formally presented to the profession. The distinction which they imply between the respective action of ordinary food and stimulants and narcotics, though not complete or satisfactory, is yet convenient and clear, and in the present state of our ignorance of the subject, is per haps about as far as we can go. Strictly speaking, we do not, in the last analysis, know how food of any kind sustains the system. Why it is and how it is that beef and bread. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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