Edward Smith (physician)



Edward Smith FRS (1819–1874) was a British physician and medical writer.

Foods

 * New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. Full text on Google Books.


 * As a general definition, it may be stated that a food is a substance which, when introduced into the body, supplies material which renews some structure or maintains some vital process; and it is distinguished from a medicine in that the latter modifies some vital action, but does not supply the material which sustains such action.
 * Introd., p. 1


 * The same nutritive elements exist in both vegetable and animal foods, and … within certain limits, the two classes of food are interchangeable.
 * Ch. XIX, p. 143


 * Every … element, whether mineral or organic, which is required for nutrition is found in the vegetable kingdom.
 * Ch. XIX, p. 143