Medical essays / by T.R. Allinson.

  • Allinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard)
Date:
1915
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Credit: Medical essays / by T.R. Allinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. ' GENERAL: DIRECTIONS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. DIETETIC.—Have only three meals a day, about five hours apart; eat the food slowly, chew it well, and stop at the first feeling of satisfaction. Eat brown bread always, and not white. Do not drink more than one cup of fluid at a meal, and that luke- warm and not sweet. Cocoa is much to be preferred to tea or coffee, as it is less injurious to the system. The meals should be eaten deliberately, time allowed for them, and a little rest taken after them, if possible. Avoid fried, greasy foods, and such foods as suet, Norfolk and Yorkshire puddings. No. 1.—Ordinary Diet.—Breakfast : 6 to 8 oz. brown bread and butter, cup of cocoa; or wheatmeal, oatmeal, hominy, or barley porridge eaten with brown bread and stewed fruit. Dinner: about four ounces lean beef or mutton, or of poultry, rabbit, or fish; two vegetables always; afterwards a little milk pudding, stewed fruit, or fruit pie. Tea:6 to 8 oz. brown bread and butter, boiled Spanish onions, boiled or raw celery, or other green stuff, or stewed fruit or milk pudding. Weak tea or cocoa to drink. -No suppers, nor any food for at least three hours before going to bed, but a cup of cocoa may be taken if thirsty or faint. This diet is for ordinary people, who take the world as they find it, want to keep in fair health, and yet not to be deemed peculiar. No. 2.—V. E. M. Diet.—Breakfast as No. 1. Dinner: thick vegetable soup eaten with brown bread, followed by a milk pudding and stewed fruit. Or a vegetarian pie, or the stew in No. 3 diet. Or simply two vegetables, brown bread, and some vegetable sauce. As a second course, milk pudding and stewed fruit. Those who do not eat flesh, should sometimes eat peas, beans, or lentils. Tea same as No. 1. This diet is for vege- tarians, for those who desire to get better health than the ordinary people, and for the delicate. It is especially useful in heart, liver, kidney, and chronic stomach complaints, in syphilis, and in gout and rheumatism. For the hypochondriaca] it is the best diet I know. No. 3.—Macaront Diet.—¥For breakfast and tea about 4 ounces brown bread cut into dice, pour boiling milk over this, allow to cool, and then eat. Dinner: 2 to 4 ounces macaroni cooked and made into a pudding; eat with stewed prunes or other fruit.
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