The philosophy of eating. By Albert J. Bellows, M.D.

TO

THE FIVE THOUSA ND LADIES
WHO, FROM 1838 TO 1858, ATTENDED MY LECTURES ON PHYSIOLOGY,
CHEMISTRY, AND HYGIENE.
DEAR FRIENDS:
In the reminiscences of the past twenty-nine years many pleasant
interviews at your firesides, in social gatherings, on steamboats,
and elsewhere, are recalled, in which some mother or teacher has
reminded me of facts or statements, physiological, chemical, or
hygienic, made ten, twenty, or twenty-five years before, but still
remembered; and often has the kind suggestion been made, that
those teachings, which had been useful to them as mothers or teachers, when only treasured in the memory, might be more useful to
their children and pupils if collected and printed.
These kind suggestions, together with the fact that the application
of science to hygiene has been almost utterly neglected, have induced me to collect and condense the ideas of my old lectures, adding
to them such as modern improvements in practical science have
suggested, and leaving out such as -have become obsolete; and the
volume thus produced I take the liberty to dedicate to the friends
who will be most likely to be interested in it.
With sincere regard,
Yours affectionately,
A. J. BELLOWS.
90 SPRINGFIELD ST., BOSTON,
November, 1867.