Diet and nutrition

Victorian and early modern writing on diet in sickness and health.

• Destructive and Constructive Food Mixtures

  Axel Emil Gibson · 1914

  A 1914 diet book on which foods may be eaten together: cereals, cooked and raw food, fruit with vegetables, soups, gravies, pastry, meat, sugar and milk, with a chapter on Metchnikoff’s sour-milk bacillus.

  Contents38 sections listed

• On Diet And Regimen In Sickness And Health

  Horace Dobell · 1882

  The seventh edition (1882) of a London physician’s rules for health and diet, with the prefaces of earlier editions back to 1870. Dobell covers house drainage and gas heating as well as food.

  Contents107 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.