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Lidén Number 156
Respondent: Adolph Fredric Wedenberg (1743-1828)
Title: ... de Varietate Ciborum ...
Date of Defense: 19 December 1767
Paginations: [iii], 4-19, [1]
Lidén Title: Varietas ciborum.
Soulsby Title: Var. cib.
Drake Title: De Varietate Ciborum.
Note: One copy has day altered in manuscript to {18} (i.e., changed from XIX to XIIX). One copy contains a correction on p. 8, line 15: Arata is corrected to Aurata.
Abstract: A medico-nutritional essay on the wide range of foodstuffs eaten by man and a classification of these foods into 10 groups. Discusses effects of diets in which each group dominates and the diseases which might result. Linnaeus' concluding advice is "Ne quid nimis," nothing in excess.