William Tibbles (1859 - February 1928) was a British physician and health writer.
Tibbles was born in Leicester. He received his LRCP (1881) and MRCS (1889) from Charing Cross Hospital where he worked as a pathological assistant.Anonymous. (1928). Dr. William Tibbles. The British Medical Journal 24 (3507): 528. He worked as a medical officer for the Melton Mowbray Rural District and Nottingham District Union. During 1915-1919 he was assistant physician at Nottingham General Hospital.
Tibbles authored books on dietetics which were positively reviewed by the medical community.Anonymous. (1913). Reviewed Work: Foods: Their Origin, Composition, And Manufacture by William Tibbles. The British Medical Journal 1 (2714): 25.Anonymous. (1913). Reviewed Work: Diet In Dyspepsia And Other Diseases Of The Stomach And Bowels. An Elementary Treatise On Their Dietetic And Hygienic Management by William Tibbles. The British Medical Journal 2 (2744): 243.T. G. M. (1915). Dietetics: Or Food in Health and Disease by William Tibbles. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 149: 115-116. He received honorary degrees, LL.D (1895) and M.D. (1907) from University of Chicago and D.C.L. (1904) from University of Washington. Tibbles was a Freemason.
Publications
Food and Hygiene: An Elementary Treatise Upon Dietetics and Hygienic Treatment (1907) The Theory of Ions: A Consideration of its Place in Biology and Therapeutics (1909)Anonymous. (1909). The Theory of Ions. The Journal of Advanced Therapeutics. 27: 396. Foods: Their Origin, Composition and Manufacture (1912) Diet in Dyspepsia and Other Diseases of the Stomach and Bowels (1913)Anonymous. (1913). Reviewed Work: Diet in Dyspepsia and Other Diseases of the Stomach and Bowels. An Elementary Treatise on Their Dietetic and Hygienic Management by William Tibbles. The American Journal of Nursing 14 (2): p. 150. Dietetics: Or Food in Health and Disease (1914) Life and Evolution (1927)
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