Diet and food, considered in relation to strength and power of endurance, trainings and athletics / by Alexander Haig.

  • Haig, Alexander, 1853-1924.
Date:
1901
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Diet and food, considered in relation to strength and power of endurance, trainings and athletics / by Alexander Haig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    9/132
    PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. The year that has elapsed since the last edition has been one of great activity in uric acid research ; but this has entailed no alteration in the prevention of suffering, which remains as before, the exclusion of the poison. It has, however, borne most emphatic testimony to the far-reaching importance of the subject, and I feel that I should fail in my duty if I did not speak out on some points. I would say, then, that in hospital work, where there is no selection of cases, something like seventy- five per cent, of the sorrow and suffering which I, as a physician, am asked to relieve, could have been prevented by exclusion of the poisons. Yet only too often when it comes before us. it is too late, and fatal damage of structure cannot be repaired. It is to me, for instance, always a painful experience to see children with severe morbus cordis, forging through months of suffering to certain death ; and the knowledge that it might have been prevented, only increases my regret that it was not. It is a matter