The very cordial reception of the first edition of Practical Dietetics has encouraged a second presentation.

In the preparation of the second issue the original matter has been thoroughly revised, and important additions made.

For valuable material I am indebted to the following physicians, hospitals and publishers, and gratefully acknowledge their assistance and kind permission accorded by them to quote their several diets.

Dr. W. Gilman Thompson, Professor of Medicine in the Cornell University Medical College in New York City and visiting physician to the Presbyterian and Bellevue Hospitals :

Dr. Max Einhorn, Professor of Clinical Medicine at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, visiting physician to the German Dispensary:

Dr. Henry Koplik, attending physician Mount Sinai Hospital, ex-president of the American Paediatric Society:

Dr. L. Emmett Holt, Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), attending physician at the Babies' Hospital and Foundling Hospital, New York:

Dr. Louis Starr, Consulting Paediatrist to the Maternity Hospital, Philadelphia; late Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania :

Dr. Frederick C. Shattuck,. Professor of Clinical Medicine in Harvard University, visiting physician Massachusetts General Hospital:

Dr. Elbridge G. Cutler, Instructor in Theory and Practice at Harvard Medical School, visiting physician Massachusetts General Hospital:

Dr. Nathan Smith Davis, late Dean Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago:

Bellevue Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Presbyterian Hospital, the Society of Lying-in Hospital (New York), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston:- D. Appleton & Co., Blakiston & Co., William Wood & Co., and the publisher of the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette:

And sincere thanks are due Mrs. Ellen H. Bichards (Instructor in Sanitary Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for aid and information, also for permission to quote from the Rumford Kitchen Leaflets.

A. F. Pattee.

New York, July, 1904.

Preface To The First Edition

As instructor of dietetics at various hospitals I have constantly felt the need of a simple manual and text-book for the use of the nurse in the classroom.

None could be found which fulfilled the requirements as to simplicity, brevity, and exactness, with reference to dietetic treatment in disease.

This same need has been expressed by mothers and nurses outside of the hospital.

In the following pages I have endeavored to meet this need by giving the result of knowledge gained during the past eight years of practical classwork experience in hospitals of different cities.

The preparation of food is a science as well as an art, the chemistry of which is as precise as the chemistry of the laboratory. When we are willing to be as exact and careful in this work as we are in chemical experiments, our success will become a certainty. No other technical art can, with so little practical knowledge, go as far in simplifying that which is otherwise complicated and laborious, or do more toward accomplishing that which is a chief result of all science- adding to the comfort and happiness of the human race.

A. F. Pattee.

New York, July, 1903.