RT Journal
A1 RUHRÄH J
T1 FOod intoxications in childhood
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD July 10
VO LIII
IS 2
SP 105
OP 106
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550020003002b
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550020003002b
AB Much has been written and said about food fevers, autointoxications and similar conditions, but little has been done concerning this class of cases, which, it would seem, ought to be established with comparative definiteness both from the standpoint of diagnosis and treatment; and as a result the patients, both large and small, frequently suffer in the hands of those who do not know what to do for them, or are buffeted about from specialist to specialist for eyes, ears, stomach, or what not. Many a practitioner has been satisfied with telling his patient or his patient's parents that there is some obscure disturbance of metabolism and prescribing various more or less inexact methods of treatment, feeling that because he is unskilled in the chemistry of nutritional disorders he can neither diagnose nor treat them. While one realizes the necessity for the investigation and careful and exact study of