Homoeopathic domestic medicine / by J. Laurie ; arranged as a practical work for students, containing a glossary of medical terms.

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
1850
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    SYNOPSIS OF THE RULES FOR DIET, UNDER HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT. ALIMENTS ALLOWED. * Soup or broth made from the lean of beef, veal and mutton, to which may be added, well boiled, sago, tapioca, vermicelli, rice, semolina, or macaroni, seasoned merely with a little salt. Meats. Beef, mutton, (poultry, rarely,) pigeons, larks, rabbits, (venison, and game in general, may in most cases be partaken of in moderation, but never when high,) plainly cooked and roasted, broiled, or stewed, in preference to boil- ed. (Ham or neat's tongue rarely.) Fish.-f Soles, whiting, smelts, trout and flounders, broiled in preference to fried; when cooked in the latter manner, the white must alone be partaken of, and the outer or fried por- tions rejected. Vegetables. Potatoes, brocoli, green peas, cauliflower, spinach, turnips, French beans, seakale, vegetable marrow, stewed lettuce, well cooked, and prepared with the gravy of meat, where required, instead of butter. Eggs lightly dressed; all kinds of light bread not new- baked, and biscuit free from soda or potash and the like. Light puddings, such as those made from vermicelli, semo- lina, fecula of potato, sago, arrow root, rice; simple cakes composed of flour or meal, eggs, sugar, and a little good butter. Fruit. Baked, stewed, or preserved apples or pears ; al- so gooseberries, raspberries, grapes, or any other fruit not of an acid quality, fully ripe, preserved, or in the form of jelly, may occasionally be partaken of. * See Manual of Homoeopathic Cookery, designed chiefly for the use of such persons as are under homoeopathic treatment. New-York. Price 50 cts. \ From the extensive varieties of American fish may be most safely 6elected—shad, king-fish, striped bass or rock-fish, Otsego bass (shad salmon,) lake trout (salmon trout,) hahbut, haddock, sea bass or black- fish, sheep's head, pike, pickerel and perch.—Ed.