The homœopathic domestic physician / by Constantine Hering.

  • Hering, Constantine, 1800-1880. Homöopathischer Hausarzt. English
Date:
1858
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Credit: The homœopathic domestic physician / by Constantine Hering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Milk, raw or boiled, fresli buttermilk, wliey, milk posset; but care should be taken not to use milk from unhealthy cows. Ice-creams with the syrup of strawberries and that of other allowed fruits, and not flavored with aromatics nor colored with cochineal or other injurious drugs. Pure, plain chocolate or cocoa, and in some cases weak black tea. Butter, free from any rancid or unusual taste, cream, mild fresh clieese, milk cheese, curds, and other simple preparations of milk; plain custards, pure sweet olive oil. Raw or boiled eggs and egg-tea, except in diarrhoea. Soups and broths of animal and vegetable substances otherwise allowed, seasoned with a little salt only ; beef tea,* mutton broth, and chicken water, after liaving been boiled for at least half an honr. Beef, inutton, all kinds of tongues, venison and wild game, the lean part of ham, pigeons, chickens and turkeys ; the latter only in the winter season and not in all cases. Cod, liaddock, whiting, sole, turbot, trout, pike, perch, carp, mackerel, herrings. Salt fish inay be taken after liaving been well soaked in cold water before it is used. Oysters, raw, roasted in the Shell, or boiled in soup. Salt, and also sugar or molasses, may be used, but always with great moderation. Should any of the allowed articles of diet disagree with the patient, on account of some constitutional peculiarity, or the nature of the disease, they should be avoided by him, though they may be perfectly wholesome for others. The patient should not overload bis stomach, nor oppress it with various or incongruous dishes. The demands of the appetite for solids are to be satisfied at stated and not too frequent periods, and at no other time. Regularity in the time of eating is of great importance. The diet of children at the breast should not be changed during their sickness ; but in such cases that of the mother should be regulated according to the preceding rules. * In orfler to make the best beef-tea, the beef should be cut up into small pieces the size of dice and allowed to soak in the cold water for at least twelve hours before it is boiled. See page 362.
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