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  1. NLM Digital Collections - A treatise on Asiatic cholera 
    Publication: New York, W. Wood and company, 1885
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/64760710R
    ... and adulterated food in, 214 tainted and adulterated food in, 214 theories, 119 theories, 119 Europe, cholera in, 1848-1854, ... 5 at autopsy, 270 T. mow's excrementitious poison theory, 120 Tainted and adulterated food and cholera, 214 Soda and lime hypochlorites in ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Elements of physiology 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1843
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61340120R
    ... in his hypothesis of the reduction of the food by oxidation. The theory of digestion by fermentation does not, however, preclude the existence of an active gastric fluid. The theory of fermentation supposes that the food is reduced by a chemical action of its ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - The fabric of dreams : dream lore and dream interpretation, ancient and modern 
    Publication: New York : E. P. Dutton & Company, [1918]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R
    ... it with their approval. In any event, the theory of heavy food as a dream incentive has withstood time. Paracelsus ... to physical stimuli, and in accord with medical theory. Acorns.—A good dream ... as articles of food through certain parts of Europe and therefore held ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The total abstinence reader : alcohol and man, or the scientific basis of total abstinence : .... 
    Publication: New York : The National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1881
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61640930R
    ... 298. Liebig, the German chemist, father of the theory that alcohol is heat-giving food, said: "If a man drank daily eight quarts ... alcohol as a food, seized upon Prof. Moleschott's theory: that alcohol, though not a food itself, was a kind of saving-box, making ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The cyclopaedia of practical medicine: comprising treatises on the nature and treatment of ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Blanchard and Lea, 1849-59
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63341370RX1
    ... because they appear in opposition to some preconceived theory. If our food possess that degree of succulence which characterises digestible ... that action of the organ which carries the food forward to the pylorus; and there ... of vomiting. If this theory be admitted, it may be applied to explain ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - The cyclopaedia of practical medicine: comprising treatises on the nature and treatment of ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1845
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63341360RX1
    ... because they appear in opposition to some preconceived theory. If our food possess that degree of succulence which characterises digestible ... that action of the organ which carries the food forward to the pylorus; and ... of vomiting. If this theory be admitted, it may be applied to explain ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Researches on primary pathology, and the origin and laws of epidemics 
    Publication: Philadelphia : M. Knapp, 1858
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/62141350R
    ... good one and worth pursuing. Applying the same theory, the want of succulent vegetable food, to the rather general prevalence of Cholera in ... have sought for evidences to refute Dr. Christison's theory. In the factory operatives the food was deficient in quantity and variety, but in ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Dr. Chase's third, last and complete receipt book and household physician : or practical ... 
    Publication: Detroit, Mich. : Dickerson, 1889
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63560800R
    ... cooled by the lemonade and the fast. His theory is, that food will be used as a remedy, for many ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Dr. Chase's third, last and complete receipt book and household physician, or, Practical ... 
    Publication: Detroit, Mich. and Windsor, Ont. : Published by F.B. Dickerson & Co., 1890
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101231184
    ... cooled by the lemonade and the fast. His theory is, that food will be used as a remedy, for many ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Dr. Chase's third, last and complete receipt book and household physician : or Practical ... 
    Publication: Detroit, Mich. ; And Windsor, Ont. : Published by F.B. Dickerson & Co., 1888
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/9435274
    ... cooled by the lemonade and the fast. His theory is, that food will be used as a remedy, for many ...
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