Excerpt from Modern Dietetics: Feeding the Sick in Hospital and Home, With Some Studies on Feeding Well People

The reason for this underestimation of dietetics and dietotherapy may be found, I believe, in the neglect of these subjects as a part of the education of students of medicine. Where ignorance prevails, indifference is likely to follow. The situation is re¿ected further in the inadequate instruction of the trained nurse in the science of dietetics and the refinements of the culinary arts which can find an application at the bedside. Where problems of economy and cost must be considered on a large scale.

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