Excerpt from The American Practitioner, 1878: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery These citations are sufficient to show that by authors of works on the practice of medicine, or of treatises upon dis eases of the digestive system, up to a recent date, alimenta tion had not been regarded as a very important measure in the treatment of affections which preclude either the ingestion of food or its digestion in the stomach and small intestines. Of late, however, interest in the subject is beginning to be awakened. It is, perhaps, not an exaggeration to say that, at the present moment, it is one of the most important of the subjects pertaining to practical medicine, which claim atten tion and further investigation. My object in this paper is to submit an account of a few cases which may contribute to our knowledge of the subject, and to offer some remarks in relation to it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.