A practical treatise on materia medica and therapeutics / by Roberts Bartholow.

  • Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.
Date:
1882
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    and silica. The composition of cooked meat, according to Moleschott (Parkes), is as follows : Water Albuminates. 2V.6 15.45 2.95 Fats. Salts It will be perceived from the foregoing analyses that beef contains ali- mentary principles the most important for the nutrition of the body. When of good quality, neither too old nor too young, the fat and mus- cle suitably proportioned, and not altered by disease, and properly cooked, it is the best of the animal foods. Veal is less digestible and less nutritious than beef, and has a laxa- tive action, which may, however, be utilized in states of disease. It is more albuminous than fibrinous and abounds in gelatine (Fonssa- grives). The thymus gland of the veal {sweetbread) is, when plainly cooked (by boiling) and moderately seasoned, a very agreeable and suit- able dish for the convalescent.—(Pereira.) 3futt07i, although possessing a lower degree of nutritive value than beef, is one of the most useful of the animal foods, as it is easily digested. Many patients, however, experience a marked degree of repugnance to mutton and cannot be induced to make use of any article of diet contain- ing it. An evident idiosyncrasy exists in some constitutions against it, so that taken disguised in any way it disagrees with the stomach. It does not continue long in favor as the exclusive article of the meat por- tion of the diet, even with those who relish it for occasional use. JPork contains more fatty matter and more often disagrees than the meats above described. Many dyspeptics cannot make use of it in any form : on the other hand, breakfast bacon may be much relished and be easily borne. Pork is rarely prescribed as a diet for the sick, but, for convalescents, roasted sucking pig, which is easily digested, may be ordered to vary the food and to stimulate a languid appetite. ye}iison is more easily and quickly digested than beef, but does not possess the same nutritive value. It is useful as an occasional article of diet for the state of convalescence and during a course of special animal diet, but for habitual consumption is not equal to beef. T/ie domestic Chicken is a most important article of food for sick and convalescents. The taste is agreeable, the tissues soft and eas}'- of mastication and digestion. Spring chickens are more tender and deli- cate than the fully-developed fowl of four or six months. Next to the chicken in point of digestibility is the domestic turkey, and after this the domestic goose and duck. Certain game birds, c. g., the prairie- chicken, wild-ducks, woodcock, snipe, are frequently prescribed for con- valescents, and possess a high degree of nutritive value, but are not, of course, adapted for habitual use.