Clinical Treatises on Disorders of Metabolism and Nutrition

Carl Harko von Noorden (1858–1944) was a German internist best known for his work on diabetes and diet. His clinical lectures came out in English as a run of slim monographs, each devoted to one condition and several written with colleagues. The shelf holds the contents pages and opening lines of nine of them.

A record of medicine around 1905, not a guide to treatment. Drink restriction for obesity, for example, is no longer used.

• 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