A dictionary of diet

Being a practical treatise on all pabulary and nutritive substances, solid and fluid, with their compounds, used as food; including the observations of eminent philosophers, physicians, gastronomers, and other industrious inquirers into the true science of eating, drinking, and preserving health, through the medium of well regulated and easily digestible food, founded on the know specific properties of all kinds of human aliment; with the means of prevention, and cure, of the diseases resulting from a deranged condition of the organs of digestion, etc. etc.

By J. S. Forsyth, surgeon, author of the "London medical and surgical dictionary," "treatise on diet and regimen," "New domestic medical manuel," etc. etc