The Carlsbad treatment for tropical and digestive ailments and how to carry it out anywhere / by Louis Tarleton Young.

  • Young, Louis Tarleton, 1859-1904.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The Carlsbad treatment for tropical and digestive ailments and how to carry it out anywhere / by Louis Tarleton Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    except diabetics, who have a special kind of bread (gluten and almond). Luncheon;—About i p.m. the keen appetite in- duced by the course becomes imperative, and a simple but substantial meal is allowed. It consists of soup, fish (boiled), plain roast or boiled joint or fowl, and stewed fruit. To those who prefer it, a plain grilled chop or steak, or a plain omelet may be allowed instead of the fish and joint. The fruit should be stewed in the special manner described at p. 68. Dry toast, rusks or zwieback, not bread, should be eaten with breakfast and dinner. Recooked meats are to be avoided, but good cold beef, mutton, or fowl are allowable. Hot dishes are, however, on the whole, preferable. They do not run the same risk of bacterial contamination, and are placed on the table practically sterilized by recent cooking. By about 5 p.m. hunger will have again so mastered you that there will be little use in my advising you to refrain from afternoon tea. Let it be as light as possible. Those unable to take tea might try a light cocoa containing a minimum of fat, and for breakfast the old-fashioned shell cocoa might be boiled. Dinner, about 7 p.m., should consist of soup, fish, joint, game, and either stewed fruit, or milk, or custard- pudding. For dessert at both dinner and luncheon one or two good mild dried French plums. Don't allow inadvertence to lead you into taking ]wrs (Vceuvres, cheese, pastry, jams, or any of the other forbidden articles. For vegetables at dinner and luncheon, green peas, carrots, French beans are allowed. Avoid the watery varieties of vegetables, like turnips.