Citations:diætetics

Noun: obsolete form of dietetics

 * 1793, Annals of Literature, Volume VII., page #415:
 * Intending, therefore, to lay a foundation for the prevention of thoſe evils which diſeaſe brings on, and preſumptuous ignorance aggravates, our author has divided his work in ſeparate parts—anatomy, conſtitutions, diætetics, medicine, and pathology, each naturally ariſing from the knowledge of the other.
 * 1807, John Aikin, Thomas Morgan and William Johnston, General Biography, Volume VI., page #290:
 * But the resignation of Roberg, the medical professor, having made another vacancy, that chair was given to Linnæus, with the condition that he and Rosen should divide the business of the two professorships between them ; and to the former were allotted the departments of the botanic garden, materia medica, semiology, diætetics, and natural history in general.
 * 1809, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary, Volume II., page #158:
 * We have arrived far beyond the period when Celsus tells us that medicine was divided into three branches, diætetics, pharmaceutics, and surgery, yet we have seen the same authors treating of each ; and though the proportion of their attention has been varied according to their fancies and opinions, yet the same author has seldom wholly neglected either. The language of Celsus seems therefore to have been mistaken, and in Trespartes deducta seems to mean the particular attention paid to each branch ; for surgical knowledge often exerted in the moment of necessity, and diætetics which require domestic attention, could form no part of the systems of the priests.
 * 1881, George Spencer Bower, Hartley and James Mill, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington; Part III., page #217:
 * To the phenomena of sleep and dreaming, and also to the condition of the deaf and dumb, he pays great attention [vol. i. p. 287] ; and in the practical part of his work devotes some pages to an elaboration of the rules of good diætetics [ii. 218—228].