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Classics of Nutrition

Nature volume 184, pages 484–485 (1959)Cite this article

A History of Nutrition

The Sequence of Ideas in Nutrition Investigations. By Prof. Elmer Verner McCollum. Edited by H. Bentley Glass. Pp. x + 451. (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957.) 6 dollars.

The Englishman's Food

A History of Five Centuries of English Diet. By the late Prof. Sir Jack Drummond and Anne Wilbraham. Revised, and with a new chapter by Dorothy Hollings-worth. Pp. 482 + 8 plates. (London: Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1958.) 36s. net.

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