Foods and dietaries : a manual of clinical dietetics / by R.W. Burnet.

Date:
1890
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Credit: Foods and dietaries : a manual of clinical dietetics / by R.W. Burnet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    off, or a cup of milk flavoured with tea, and a slice of thin bread and butter. Breal'fast, g a.m.—Fat bacon, fish, or eggs, or eggs and bacon, with brown bread and butter, cafS au lait, or cocoa and milk. I dclock.—Chicken, game, or light meat, mashed potato, and green vegetables, such as spinach or tender cabbage. Milk-pudding, or shape or custard, with cooked fruit. A glass of light bitter ale, or a couple of glasses of light wine. 4.30.—A cup of tea, half milk, bread and butter, or plain cake. 7 dcloclc.—A meal like the midday dinner. Before going to bed, a glass of milk, or of prepared farinaceous food with milk, with or without a tablespoonful of spirit, as the circumstances may indicate. Modification of Diet—This diet must be modified to suit each special case. For example, if the patient cannot take the early morning milk without losing his appetite for breakfast, let him have an early light breakfast, and at i i A.M. a cup of soup or of broth with toast or a biscuit. Again, if the evening meal is preferred early, let it be taken say at 6.30, and then give about 9.30 a cup of rusks and milk or of arrowroot, with a tablespoonful of spirit. Arrowroot and brandy will answer well when there is any tendency to diarrhoea; and when such is the case, the green vegetables and fruit will have to be omitted for the time being. Moreover, if there be much dyspepsia, the diet may have to be still further simplified, and divided into smaller meals at shorter intervals. Where the disease has become established, but there is an absence of fever, the following will serve as a type on which to work out a dietary suitable for the special case :— 7 A.M.—A cup of milk, with a tablespoonful of rum or other spirit in it, or a cup of milk with a little tea in it, and a slice of thin bread and butter.