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A treatise on food and diet: with observations on the dietetical regimen suited for disordered states of the digestive organs; and an account of the dietaries of some of the principal metropolitan and other establishments for paupers, lunatics, criminals, children, the sick, etc / [Jonathan Pereira].

  • Pereira, Jonathan, 1804-1853.
Date:
1843
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Credit: A treatise on food and diet: with observations on the dietetical regimen suited for disordered states of the digestive organs; and an account of the dietaries of some of the principal metropolitan and other establishments for paupers, lunatics, criminals, children, the sick, etc / [Jonathan Pereira]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cuap. IV—DIETARIES. Importance of the subject—ill effects of prison dietaries—quan- tity of food required subject to variation—Captain Parry’s opinion—fatigue, hard labour, and term of imprisonment, are modifying circumstances. Mental influence in scurvy—variety of food necessary—uses of nitrogenized and non-nitrogenized Page 1. Dietaries for Children. Children require food more frequently than adults—why—fondness for sugar—errors in the dieting of children—consequences on them of defective nutriment. Dietaries of the Foundling Hospital, the Royal Military Asylum, the Naval Asylum, the Infant Orphan Asylum, Mr. Aubin’s Esta- blishment at Norwood, the Hospice des Enfans Trouvés and Hospices des Incurables-in Paris, and the Merchants’? Seaman’s 2. Dietary for the Naval Service. Scale of Diet used in the Navy— error in the scale of equivalents adopted—Water used in the navy. Scale of Victualling of aes ies pore to India, 3. Army Rations 4, Dietaries for Paupers. The six dietaries of the Poor Law Com- missioners—comparative view of them. Soup, Gruel, and Suet Puddings used in poor-houses. Loss in cooking and 5, Dietaries for Prisoners. Conclusions of the Inspectors of Prisons—Dissent of Mr. Hill—Instructions issued by the Secretary of State—Dietaries ordered to be used in prisons in England and Wales—comparative view of them—objections 6. Dietaries for the Sick. General observations —natural instincts . too often thwarted. 1. Full, Common, or Meat Diet. 2. Ani- mal Diet—diabetes—effects of animal diet on it. 3. Vegetable Diet... 4. Spare or Abstemious Diet. 5. Fever Diet. 6. Low Diet. 7. Milk Diet. 8. Dry Diet.—Dietaries of the Metro- politan Hospitals.— London Hospital— St. Bartholomew's Hos- pital — Guy’s Hospital—St. Thomas’s Hospital—St. George’s Hospital— Westminster Hospital—Middlesea Hospitul—King’s College Hospital—North London Hospital—Dreadnought Hostal Ship. Dr. Carpenter’s observations on the dietaries of Eng- lish Hospitals—reply thereto. Dietaries of the Royal Naval Hospitals, the Marine ED giaah (ete and the Ris ie Ordnance 7. Dietaries for the Insane. Dr. Bascal s observations thereon— cases of refusal of food. Dietaries of the Hanwell Lunatic 8. Dietaries for Puerperal Women. - Dietaries of ihe City of London