Diet in Sickness and in Health

1895

Truby King Collection WB 400 H994

London: The Scientific Press

Truby King’s annotations in Mrs Ernest Hart’s ‘Restorative’ chapter in her Diet in Sickness and in Health speak volumes on his approach to general living: ‘If a man needs a restorative he should not think of a drug of ‘stimulant’ or ‘restorative’, but should recognise that he needs re-creating. Let him rectify his habits bodily & mentally and lessen the monotony of his life.’ He ends it with the word: ‘Hobby!’ Hart (Alice Marion Hart, née Rowlands) was a nurse, who alongside her husband founded the Cremation Society. This publication was an early work on diets (1895); the title-page is signed by King.