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Dietetics  n.  That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet. "To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dietetics" Quotes from Famous Books



... embrocation^, liniment, cataplasm^, sinapism^, arquebusade^, traumatic, vulnerary, pepastic^, poultice, collyrium^, depilatory; emplastrum^; eyewater^, vesicant, vesicatory [Med.]. compress, pledget^; bandage &c (support) 215. treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis medicatrix^, vis medicatrix naturae [Lat.]; medecine expectante [Fr.]; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection [Med.], phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... does this directing of manual work stand to the credit of the Chapters, but they have given courses of lectures in home nursing and dietetics to thirty-four thousand women, and in first aid; ten thousand classes have been held and seventy-five thousand certificates issued to the proficient. Certainly one object of the Red Cross, "to stimulate the volunteer work of women," ...
— Mobilizing Woman-Power • Harriot Stanton Blatch

... by one of the pioneers of modern dietetics, is in the nature of a challenge, and is certain to arouse discussion among all who have ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

... could be heard warning Briggs against the further accumulation of fat. He recommended a new system of reducing, and gave the flushed and stuttering butler the name of a New York specialist in dietetics whom he advised him ...
— The Madness of May • Meredith Nicholson

... patients. Prospects of recovery are never jeopardized by confinement in a proper institution. Mental and physical rest, quiet, regularity of eating, exercising, and sleeping are the essentials which underlie all successful treatment of these cases. Dietetics, diversion by means of games, music, etc., regular occupation of any practicable sort, together with the association with the hopeful, tactful, and reasoning minds of physicians and nurses trained for this purpose are of great ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various



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