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    ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
    DIET

    _A Treatise on the Food Question_

    IN FIVE VOLUMES

    EXPLAINING, IN PLAIN LANGUAGE, THE
    CHEMISTRY OF FOOD AND THE CHEMISTRY OF
    THE HUMAN BODY, TOGETHER WITH THE ART OF
    UNITING THESE TWO BRANCHES OF SCIENCE IN THE
    PROCESS OF EATING SO AS TO ESTABLISH NORMAL
    DIGESTION AND ASSIMILATION OF FOOD AND
    NORMAL ELIMINATION OF WASTE, THEREBY
    REMOVING THE CAUSES OF STOMACH,
    INTESTINAL, AND ALL OTHER
    DIGESTIVE DISORDERS

    BY

    EUGENE CHRISTIAN, F. S. D.

    VOLUME I

    NEW YORK CITY
    CORRECTIVE EATING SOCIETY, INC.
    1917




    COPYRIGHT 1914
    BY
    EUGENE CHRISTIAN

    ENTERED AT
    STATIONERS HALL, LONDON
    SEPTEMBER, 1914

    BY
    EUGENE CHRISTIAN, F. S. D.

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


    PUBLISHED AUGUST, 1914




    TO THE
    MOTHERS
    AND TO THE NOBLE WORKERS
    IN THE GREAT CAUSE OF HUMAN HEALTH
    AND OF HUMAN SUFFERING
    THESE VOLUMES ARE
    Dedicated
    BY
    THE AUTHOR




PREFACE


Countless centuries have come and gone and have left on the earth myriad
forms of life; but just what life is, from whence it came, whether
or not there is purpose or design behind it, whether or not all the
sacred books are mere conceptions of the infant mind