Diet & Nutrition.- Arbuthnot (John) An Essay concerning the Nature of Ailments...in which the different Effects, Advantages and Disdvantages of Animal and Vegetable Diet are explain'd, first edition, light foxing at beginning and end, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, [Wellcome II, 52], J.Tonson, 1731 § Stark (William) The Works...consisting of Clinical and Anatomical Observations, with Experiments, Dietetical and Statistical, only edition, half-title, 3 folding engraved plates, 4pp. bookseller's catalogue at end, plates foxed and with library stamp, modern half calf, 1788 § Paris (J.A.) A Treatise on Diet, first edition, modern cloth-backed boards, 1826 § Bennett (J.H.) Treatise on Inflammation as a process of Anormal Nutrition, only edition, lithographed plate with partial hand-colouring (shaved at edges), modern cloth-backed boards, Edinburgh, 1844 § Wadd (William) Cursory Remarks on Corpulence; or Obesity considered as a Disease, third edition, advertisement leaf at end, library cloth, rubbed, 1816 § Earle (Maude)Sickroom Cookery and Hospital Diet, third edition, advertisements to front endpapers, original cloth, 1910, the third and fifth with faint ink library stamp to title; and 4 others, v.s. (10)

⁂ The second is an account of a series of statistical experiments on diet. Unfortunately the author carried out his experiments with such zeal that it ruined his health and he died at the age of thirty.