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The Englishman's Food

Nature volume 144, pages 264–265 (1939)Cite this article

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DIET is neither frivolous knowledge nor a curious science; it is the leader to perfect health. So, in similar words, wrote Thomas Muffett in 1655; the sentiments are as true to-day as then, when at long last the subject of diet is beginning to be understood.

The Englishman's Food

A History of Five Centuries of English Diet. By Prof. J. C. Drummond and Anne Wilbraham. Pp. 574 + 16 plates. (London: Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1939.) 12s. 6d. net.

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ARMSTRONG, E. The Englishman's Food. Nature 144, 264–265 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144264a0

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