They knew perfectly well that the National Committee of Relief and Alimentation patronized and subsidized without distinction all the benevolent undertakings which applied to it (p.
A husband is obligated to provide alimentation (alimentos) to his wife even though she may have brought no property into the marital community.
If the wife has property of her own she must furnish alimentation (food, clothing and lodging) to her husband when he is in want and cannot obtain it for himself.
By alimentation is meant not only necessary food, but raiment and things of personal necessity and comfort commensurate with the husband's ability to make such provision.
Hypodermic injections of morphia and atropia, chloroform internally, and extremely careful alimentation proved most serviceable.
Alimentation must be severely controlled by the physician, and the tolerance and effects constantly watched.
The entire range of humanalimentation was at his mercy, and often the government closed an eye because the food shark would subscribe handsomely to the next war loan.
There must be a vehicle if alimentation is to be normal.
It is helpful to be able to provide sufficient alimentation for them for a few days at least, so that it will not be necessary for them to return to the mountains in search of food.
I am also aware that an exclusively vegetable alimentation might be substituted for our customary mixed diet, which is both animal and vegetable.
It is difficult to reply to such vegetarian,[4] for, after all, animal alimentation is not indispensable to human life.
But, though a vegetable alimentationis possible, our western civilisation is bound up with the principle of a mixed diet in the ordinary conditions of life.
The problem ofalimentation is, indeed, one of the most essential, perhaps the most essential, in the history of humanity.
Alimentation is sufficient when it is so regulated that all the functions of the body are performed in a complete and regular manner.
The effect of insufficient alimentation in the production of disease has long been recognized.
Insufficient alimentation induces a series of phenomena and a result which have been designated “inanition,” or “starvation.
But the organization of a scientific system of alimentation did not cease with utilizing the materials and methods already existing.
These were the conditions for whichalimentation had waited from the beginnings of the race to become a science.
In his "Public Alimentation under the Ancient Monarchy," M.
The history of the alimentation of Paris might be made the subject of an entire volume.
Many larvæ adhere to the alimentationpresent in the egg, as do many adult insects also.
In this way the original method ofalimentation is continued--the method which builds flesh out of flesh and makes blood out of blood with no chemical processes but those of simple reconstruction.
This refusal to touch honey, whether poisonous or repugnant, is connected with principles of alimentation too general to be a gastronomic peculiarity of the Philanthus grub.
In thealimentation of armies bread is the basal element.
We have shown in the chapter on Alimentation how this process of respiration affects the nutrition, and how serious the results of its disturbance.
The question of alimentation with the civil laborer, exposed to healthy influences of properly distributed air and sunlight, and to the regular motions of a well-conducted life, is easy of solution to the inquiring mind.
Rectal alimentation can sometimes be advantageously combined with feeding by the mouth.
Excessive alimentation is a prolific source of gastric inflammation.
These facts have important bearings upon the question of alimentation in fevers and the conditions in which there is chronic congestion on the venous side of the circulation.
Menzel and Porco were the first to employ hypodermic alimentation (ibid.
Within certain bounds alimentation is undoubtedly an important part of the treatment of all the essential forms of fever.
If gastric symptoms, particularly vomiting, be very urgent, or if food introduced into the stomach affords little or no nourishment, as in some cases of tight pyloric stricture, then rectalalimentation is to be resorted to.
Alimentation is to be kept up by mouth or rectum, as may be necessary, with as much food as can be given containing the most nutrition in the smallest bulk possible.
At the best, hypodermic alimentation can afford but slight nourishment, and is to be regarded only as a last refuge.
It can scarcely be a matter of doubt that large groups of diseases have for their principal causes excess of alimentation beyond the actual requirements of the system.
An exclusive diet of skimmed milk, kept up for two weeks or as long as possible, is the best mode of alimentation for this part of the treatment.
Rectal alimentation should be resorted to where the difficulties of deglutition are at all great.
The chief inconvenience is the difficulty in alimentation consequent on the pain in mastication and in swallowing.
Excessive alimentation is, as we have seen, a most prolific source of the disease.
This form of alimentation should be kept in reserve in a case of chronic illness until all other methods of sustaining the patient prove insufficient to support life.
Like the respiration, the alimentation ought to be watched by the singer.
Very nutritive and very digestible food should be chosen for a singer, and a mixed alimentation should be employed.
