The faeces of children and adults : their examination and diagnostic significance with indications for treatment / by P.J. Cammidge.

  • Cammidge, P. J. (Percy John), 1872-
Date:
1914
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Credit: The faeces of children and adults : their examination and diagnostic significance with indications for treatment / by P.J. Cammidge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following test diet is recommended by Harley and Good- body :— 8.0 a.m.—10 oz. hot water. g.o a.m. 3 oz. whiting, 4 Mackenzie's toast biscuits (or 2 oz. of toast or rusk), ^ oz. butter, 10 oz. tea, 2 oz. milk. Noon.—10 oz. hot water. i.op.m.—3 oz. mutton, 3 oz. cabbage, rice pudding (.V oz. rice, 10 oz. milk), 4 biscuits (or 2 oz. of toast or rusk), oz. butter. 4.30 p.m.—10 oz. tea, 2 oz. milk, 2 biscuits (or i oz. of toast or lusk). 6.0 p.m.—10 oz. hot water. 7.0 p.m.—3 oz. plaice, 3 oz. chicken, 3 oz. spinach, rice pudding as at hmch, 2 biscuits (or i oz. of toast or rusk), ^ oz. butter. 10.0 p.m.—10 oz. milk. This diet contains about 130 grams of protein, 72 grams of fat, and 119 grams of carbohydrate, \delding 1697 calories, a sufficient allowance for an average adult weighing 154 lb. (70 kilos) when at rest. The disadvantage of such a diet as the preceding is that, in the process of cooking, the food is so much altered that microscopical examination of the residues passed in the fceces does not always give very satisfactory results. To meet this difficulty Schmidt has devised a test diet leaving easily distinguished food residues, which he strongly recommends in the investigation of gastro-intestinal disorders by microscopical and chemical analyses of the faeces. The patient is first thoroughly purged, and then put on the following diet for several days :— 7.30 a.m.—17I- oz. (0-5 litre) milk or, if milk does not agree, cocoa [made from | oz. (20 grams) cocoa powder, -J- oz. (10 grams) sugar, 14 oz. (400 grams) water, and 3 oz. (100 grams) milk], if oz. (50 grams) of rusk or toast. 9.0 a.m.—17|- oz. (0-5 litre) of gruel [made from ih oz. (40 grams) oatmeal, J oz. (10 grams) butter, 7 oz. (200 grams) milk, loj oz. (300 grams) water, one egg, and strained]. i.o p.m.—4I oz. (125 grams) (raw weight) minced beef, fried in f oz. (20 grams) butter, so that the interior remains raw, g oz. (250 grams) potato puree [made from 7 oz. (190 grams) of mashed potato, 3|- oz. (100 grams) of milk, and ^ oz. (10 gram.s) of butter]. 4.30 p.m.—-As at 7.30 a.m. 7.30 p.m.—As at 9.0 a.m. This diet contains about 102 grams of protein, iii of fat, and 190 of carbohydrate, yielding about 2230 calories. The iveces are collected for examination as soon as they show the characteristic light colour given by the diet. When using a test diet, it is of course necessary that only analyses