Tuberculosis and vinegar : presented to the section on physiology and dietetics at the forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Philadelphia, Pa., June 1st to 4th, 1897 / by John Ashburton Cutter.

  • Cutter, John Ashburton, 1863-1944.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Tuberculosis and vinegar : presented to the section on physiology and dietetics at the forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Philadelphia, Pa., June 1st to 4th, 1897 / by John Ashburton Cutter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    on the outside and of a reddish but not raw appearance inside. It is best served on a hot-water plate, and if a little underdone it will cook on the plate when the meat cako is opened. If a hot-water plate cannot be obtained, one can be extemporized by the use of a soup plate filled with hot water, on which is placed another plate with the meat. There cannot be too much care used in the buying of the beef or its preparation, and, if proper caution is taken, the patient will generally eat it with a relish. It should be seasoned with pepper, salt, butter, Worcester, shire sauce, horse-radish, lemon juice, as the patient de- sires. Lamb, mutton, the dark meat of fowl and game, broiled codfish can be used as changes; the whites of eggs dropped in boiling water and slightly cooked may be taken freely, if the patient is not eating enough of solid food. Some patients will take the whites of from one dozen to two dozen eggs in a day when weak and not able to take other food. Don't do as one woman did ; she gave her husband the cooked whites of eggs with plenty of vinegar. The masses of vinegar yeast in the blood were so large and frequent under the microscope that amazement was expressed. The woman protested that she was doing everything absolutely according to order for her husband. As all of his symptoms were worse, and because of this blood morphology of the masses of vinegar yeast, it was insisted that some error was being made, and thus ascertained what she had done. Vegetable food may be added as follows; Some pa- tients can bear one of the following foods at a meal: cracked wheat, rice, hominy, toasted entire wheat-flour bread, baked potato. It is a hardship at the best to con- fine patients to close diet, and physicians should give them as much variety as possible; but there is more dan- ger of error on the side of too broad a diet than on that of too narrow a one. The use of distilled water, or some good spring water