Physical description; xix, 171 pages, leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Series; Croonian Lectures, 1933. Notes; This book represents the substance of the Croonian lectures delivered to the Royal College of Physicians on the 8th, 13th, and 15th June 1933 ... Chapters five and six on the relation of nutrition to the nervous system also formed the basis of the Linacre lecture given at Cambridge university on the 6th May 1933"--Pref. Includes bibliographic references. Summary; "This book represents the substance of the Croonian lectures delivered to the Royal college of physicians on the 8th, 13th, and 15th June 1933...Chapters five and six on the relation of nutition to the nervous system also formed the basis of the Linacre lecture given at Cambridge university on the 6th May 1933." Cf. Preface, p.vii. Subjects; Nutritional Physiological Phenomena. Nutrition Disorders. Diet. Diseases - Causes and theories of causation. Nutrition. Deficiency Diseases. Nutritionally induced diseases. Goiter.