Handbuch der Therapie: Therapie des praktischen Arztes in Einzeldarstellungen

This is essentially a handbook of practical dietetics for the physician. In contrast with the current custom in writing similar books in the United States, the emphasis is on calories, digestibility and the relations between proteins, fats and carbohydrates, rather than on individual vitamins and amino acids and specific deficiencies. Different categories of patients are taken up systematically rather than the reverse emphasis on the systematic discussion of the nutrients. This makes for a less elegant (or should one say less pretentious?) treatment; it is not necessarily less useful on this account. In any case this is a clinical work, simply and clearly written and yet based on sound knowledge and experience. It may be suspected that this is precisely what the practicing physician really wants and needs in this country, instead of more handbooks and monographs in which the trappings of scholarship invite the researcher rather than the clinician