Practical Dietetics, with Reference to Diet in Disease

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The author, 1904 - 340 pages
 

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Page 275 - : 1. Allow time for meals. 2. See that the food is thoroughly masticated. 3. Do not allow nibbling between meals. 4. Do not tempt the child with the sight of rich and indigestible food. 5. Do not force the child to eat against its will, but examine the mouth, which may be sore from erupting teeth ; and examine the food, which may not be properly cooked or flavored. If good food is refused from peevishness merely remove it, and do not offer it again before next meal time.
Page vii - Revised and Edited by Louis Starr, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia.
Page 173 - Cook the corn meal with 4 cups of the milk, add the figs and salt. When the mixture is cool, add the eggs well beaten. Pour into a buttered pudding dish and bake in a moderate oven for 3 hours or more.
Page 223 - Shellfish and all kinds of fish, fresh, salted, dried, pickled or otherwise preserved (no dressing containing flour). Eggs. — In any way most acceptable. Meats. — Fat beef, mutton, ham or bacon, poultry, sweetbreads, calf's head, sausage, kidneys, pig's feet, tongue, tripe, game (all cooked free of flour, potatoes, bread or crackers). Farinaceous. — Gluten porridge, gluten bread, gluten gems, gluten biscuits, gluten wafers, gluten griddle cakes, almond bread or cakes, bran bread or cakes. Vegetables.
Page 211 - ... cocoa. 2. Soups : beef, veal, chicken, tomato, potato, oyster, mutton, pea, bean, squash ; carefully strained and thickened with rice (powdered), arrowroot, flour, milk or cream, egg, barley. 3.
Page 247 - ... enter the appendix and set up local inflammation there. The recurrent cases are more apt to be excited directly by overeating and improper food. Dietetic Treatment. — The dietetic treatment of appendicitis which has not yet passed into the surgeon's hands should consist in giving only such food as will be thoroughly absorbed, leaving as little residue as possible to irritate the lower bowel and excite peristalsis. Until the outcome of the attack is decided it is best to put the patient upon...
Page 93 - ... add a pinch of salt and a tablespoonful of cold water and serve. This gruel is excellent for children afflicted with summer complaint. Or brown a tablespoonful of flour in the oven or on top of the stove...
Page vii - MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore.

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