Medical treatises

Clinical lectures and household medicine from the turn of the twentieth century.

• Part 1. Obesity: The Indications for Reduction Cures

  Carl von Noorden · 1904

  When a “reduction cure” for obesity was thought worth the risk, in healthy patients and in those with heart, kidney, lung or joint disease.

  Contents16 sections listed

• Part 2. Nephritis

  Carl von Noorden · 1904

  The dietary treatment of kidney disease, then called Bright’s disease, built on the principle of “saving” the kidneys.

  Contents32 sections listed

• Part 3. Membranous Catarrh of the Intestines

  Carl von Noorden and Carl Dapper · 1903

  Colica mucosa, its symptoms and a coarse laxative diet as treatment, with a table of cases.

  Contents15 sections listed

• Part 4. The Acid Autointoxications

  Carl von Noorden and Dr. Mohr · 1904

  Acetone bodies, acetonuria and diabetic coma: the early clinical understanding of what is now called ketoacidosis.

  Contents24 sections listed

• Part 5. Saline Therapy

  Carl von Noorden and Carl Dapper · 1904

  Experiments with salt mineral waters on stomach secretion and the digestion of fat.

  Contents19 sections listed

• Part 6. Drink Restriction (Thirst Cures), Particularly in Obesity

  Carl von Noorden and Hugo Salomon · 1905

  The history of and experiments with restricting fluids, an approach to obesity medicine has since dropped.

  Contents17 sections listed

• Part 8. Gout

  H. Strauss · 1909

  The pathogenesis of gout, uric acid in the blood and the dietetics of gout as understood in 1909.

  Contents23 sections listed

• Part 8. Inanition (Fasting) and Fattening Cures

  Carl von Noorden · 1910

  Metabolism in fasting and undernutrition, and the opposite problem: cures for putting weight on.

  Contents27 sections listed

• Part 9. Technique of Reduction Cures and Gout

  Carl von Noorden · 1910

  The practical side of weight-reduction diets: degrees of restriction, fats versus carbohydrates, protein and water.

  Contents33 sections listed

• The Home Hand-Book of Domestic Hygiene and Rational Medicine. Volume 2.

  John Harvey Kellogg · 1881

  The second volume of Kellogg’s household medical encyclopedia, 1881: 783 sections on disease and its treatment, from the blood and tissues to individual illnesses. A document of nineteenth-century medicine…

  Contents783 sections listed

These are historical texts. Autointoxication, “thirst cures” and several of the diets described here were abandoned by medicine long ago. Read them for the history; ask a doctor about your own health.