HISTORY OF NUTRITION

Father of Medicine;

1st showed interest in “Nutrition”

• Hippocrates

• Galen

• Santorio Santorio

• James Lind

• Antonie van Leeuwenheok

“Assimilation of that which nourishes by adhesion & assimilation”

• Hippocrates

• Galen

• Santorio Santorio

• James Lind

• Antonie van Leeuwenheok

• 1st to measure “insensible perspiration” – sweat

• Hippocrates

• Galen

• Santorio Santorio

• James Lind

• Antonie van Leeuwenheok

• Studies basal metabolism;

• Food servings ≠ excretion amts

• Hippocrates

• Galen

• Santorio Santorio

• James Lind

• Antonie van Leeuwenheok

• Some men got ill / died cuz of deficiency

• Hippocrates

• Galen

• Santorio Santorio

• James Lind

• Antonie van Leeuwenheok

• 1st desc starch under microscope

• Hippocrates

• Galen

• Santorio Santorio

• James Lind

• Antonie van Leeuwenheok

Father of Nutrition;

• Studied animal respiration – pedal exchange of gases equipment

• Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

• Daniel Rutherford

• Gerardus Johannes Mulder

• Justus Baron von Liebig

• C. Schmidt

Discovered Nitrogen

• Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

• Daniel Rutherford

• Gerardus Johannes Mulder

• Justus Baron von Liebig

• C. Schmidt

1st to use the word “protein”

• Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

• Daniel Rutherford

• Gerardus Johannes Mulder

• Justus Baron von Liebig

• C. Schmidt

• Supported use of modern names Carbohydrates, Protein, Fat – significant contributions in org chem

• Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

• Daniel Rutherford

• Gerardus Johannes Mulder

• Justus Baron von Liebig

• C. Schmidt