My mother is looking for a book called Starvation Hill, about a doctor that used starvation as a means of fighting desease. It is non-fiction and probably long out of print.
Do you have an author’s name, by any chance?
Google found only 60 or so entries, none of them a book.
Sorry to post without an answer but this reminds me. I could swear I bought and read a popular book, as a child, with the word ‘gooseberries’ in the title. It was definately a children’s book and I am pretty sure it had a picture of said fruit on the cover. Yet I have never been able to find the book as an adult, and people have looked at me as if I am insane when I’ve asked them if they know of it.
I don’t have an answer, but I will just add that a British doctor named John Rollo suspected diet in the role of diabetes, and used starvation as a means of treating it.
But that’s a very specific case, and I don’t know that he used starvation as a general prescription.
Well, let’s start the process of elimination . . . .
Nothing at Library of Congress
Nothing on bookfinder.com
Nothing on amazon.com
Well, let’s start the process of elimination . . . .
Nothing at Library of Congress
Nothing on bookfinder.com
Nothing on amazon.com
Them’s my usual places to look for OOP books. Alibris.com has a service called “Book Fetch” where you can submit books you’re looking for and they’ll check new arrivals for a match. You could try that (and I’ll bet other OOP booksellers have similar services).
Well, like others in this thread, i found no listing anywhere for Starvation Hill.
I did, however, find this.
It’s non-fiction, the title is pretty damn close, and the story seems near enough to suggest that your mother might have misinterpreted it slightly.
The title was close enough for Mom to apologize for misremembering the title, and I’ve ordered the book for her.
Thank you! 
A book about murder by starvation confused for a diet book!!
:smack:
Shows the awsome power of the SMDB. Despite the wrong title and a confused subject, the right answer was found in about three hours.
Distributed knowledge works!
DD