Aphorisms, Definitions, Reflections, and Paradoxes, Medical, Surgical and Dietetic.

Aphorisms, Definitions, Reflections, and Paradoxes, Medical, Surgical and Dietetic.

Author: Rabagliati, A (1843 in Scotland – 7 December 1930 in Bradford, England)

8vo.(5.5" x 8.375") 1901. Rabagliati, A. New York. William Wood & Company. Full green publishers' cloth over beveled boards with blindstamp frames and centered publishers colophon to upper board, rear blank. Spine with gilt title/author towards head, gilt publisher at foot, triple gilt rule to head and foot of spine. Mild edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, heads and foot of spine with tiny, closed tears, rear cover and spine with small scuffs (see pic).

From Wiki: Andrea Carlo Francisco Rabagliati (1843 in Scotland – 7 December 1930 in Bradford, England) was a physician and author of books on dietary practice. Rabagliati has been described as an advocate of alternative medicine and the "nature cure". Biographer Carole Seymour-Jones has noted that in his book Air, Food and Exercise, Rabagliati described how "cancer, influenza, pneumonia and almost all modern diseases could be cured by diet." Rabagliati was a convinced vegetarian, who favoured two meals a day, with eight hours between them. Rabagliati believed that people could add fifteen years to their lives by following his diet. Rabagliati held some unorthodox ideas, for example he believed that bodily energy and heat do not come from any food source. Instead, he speculated that humans obtain "vital energy" from sleeping. He authored a book about this in 1907 and wrote the introduction to Hereward Carrington's Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition, which expounded on these ideas. A review in the Edinburgh Medical Journal, suggested he was advocating a "modified form of vitalism". His 1907 book was mocked in the Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal, which commented "we are in doubt as to whether to take this book seriously or not. If the latter, it is one of the best scientific jokes perpetrated for many a day."

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