Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham.

  • Robert J. Blackham
Date:
1921
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VIII. Sick DIETARY, Foods come under one of the five following headings. namely :— 1. Nitrogenous or meat foods, which include eggs, fish, flesh, and fowl, and also certain vegetables, such as. peas, beans, and lentils. 2. Fatty foods, which include butter, cream, and thc fats of all animals. 3. Carbohydrate or starchy and sugary foods, which include rice, tapioca, sago, potatoes, and all similar foodstuffs. Bread is a starchy food, but when stale, toasted, or in the form of crust the starch is in a different form tothat in most other starchy foods; bread alse contains a small amount of nitrogen and fat. 4, Mineral foods, including common salt, phosphates and carbonates. 5. Last, but not least, water, which, next to air, is the prime necessity of life. In addition to these five essentials there is an impor- tant group of articles, such as tea, coffee, and condiments which are known under the comprehensive title of food accessories. Putting on one side aiy and water, in a sufficienl diet there must be : (1) A protein constituent—that is, a food containing nitrogen—because nitrogenous or albuminous tissues form the essential framework of the body. (2) There must also be salts, because these enter into the composition of all the tissues and fluids, (3) Although fat can be formed in the body from proteins
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