Temperature of Drinks
The temperature of drinks must be in strict accordance with the prescription of the
physician. The patient must be urged to thoroughly masticate the food, so that it
will be properly salivated and thus facilitate digestion. Patients seriously ill, should
receive their food mashed or minced, so that they can partake of it more easily. All
waste parts, such as skin, fat, sinews, bones, must be removed from the food, even
for convalescents. Warmed up food and fibrous vegetables must be banished from
the patient's diet.
It must not be a question as to what the patient wants; the
prescription of the physician only must govern. The patient's food must be prepared
carefully, absolutely correctly and in a cleanly manner. In case of strong thirst,
great care must be exercised in regard to drinks, depending on the physician's
directions.
The thirsty feeling of the patient may be alleviated by putting glyzerine
on his lips and small pieces of ice on his tongue, without, however, permitting him
to swallow the water as the ice melts.
Normal Diet for Stomach Diseases.
Milk, sweet and sour, buttermilk, yoghurt, kefir, albumen cacao, cereals in the form
of mush, strained legumes, cooked in soup or milk, all sorts of glutinous soups,
farinose dishes prepared from stale rolls, biscuits, zwieback, tender and easily,
digestible meats, mashed game meat, chicken, raw beef, ham, meat jelly, young
vegetables, preserved fruit.
Avoid the following: all indigestible fats, meat which requires more than 4 to 5
hours for its digestion, hot salads, gas-producing vegetables, gravy, fruits which
abound in cellulose, such as apricots and peaches, hard stems, xylocarp ribs of
leaves, the strong smelling and sharp tasting parts of some kinds of vegetables, as
for instance, new potatoes, cabbage (in the cooking of which the first water must be
poured off), hot soups and spicy herbs, spices of all kinds, high game, sausages,
bacon, yeast pastry, drinks too hot or too cold, strong coffee (in the place of which
fruit coffee is recommended), stale raisins and almonds, nuts, too much candy,
much liquid with meats, and excitement of all kinds while eating.
General Hints for a nourishing treatment.
The patient who is to gain in flesh must adhere strictly to the prescribed diet as well
as to the prescribed rest, if the treatment is to take effect.
The following articles are very nourishing: yolks of eggs prepared in any style,
milk, cream, kefir, rich cheese, beef marrow on toast (cooked in soup), all kinds of
noodles and dumplings, puddings, cocoa and chocolate, white bread, rich thick
soups, gravy, potatoes and oats prepared in various ways, sweet beer, malt beer,
sweet wines and puddings with preserved fruits, fruit juices, meat from well-fed
animals only. All meals must be served in small portions, so as not to create
distaste for food.
7
A.M.
—250 grams of fresh, boiled, unskimmed milk, or ¼ quart cocoa prepared
with milk or Knorr's oat-cocoa, or ? quart cream with tea added, one roll, butter
and honey.
9
A.M.
—1 cup bouillon, 20 grams hot or cold roast meat, 30 grams Graham or
gluten bread, 10 grams butter. Then ¼ quart milk, butter and Graham bread.
11
A.M.
—¼ quart milk with the yolk of one egg.
1
P.M.
—100 grams soup (oat, barley, vegetable soup), green corn, sago soup, 100
grams potatoes, 100 grams tender vegetables, such as spinach, mashed peas,
mashed carrots, mashed artichokes, asparagus tips strained, 20 grams easily
digestable rice, 50 grams preserved fruit; or, no soup, but, instead meat, vegetables,
apple sauce, dishes made from milk or flour, such as noodles, fruit, ? quart cream.
4
P.M.
—Light tea or milk, with malt or cocoa added, two crackers, ½ quart milk.
6
P.M.
—20 grams meat (hot or cold roast meat), raw meat or 10 grams Graham
bread, 10 grams butter, milk chocolate, Graham bread, butter, honey.
8
P.M.
—1 cup soup with 10 grams butter and one yolk, barley, oats, etc., eggs or
meat, vegetables, preserved fruits, Graham bread, butter, mild cream cheese.
9.30
P.M.
—¼ quart milk, with a spoonful of malt extract, ? quart cream.
As a special breakfast, for a thin patient, the following drink is recommended: To a
cup of unskimmed hot milk add one yolk and one spoonful of pure bee-honey. This
must be taken in the morning on an empty stomach for several weeks.
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