Valere aude (dare to be healthy) : $b or, The light of physical regenerationDechmann, Louis
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Valere aude (dare to be healthy) : $b or, The light of physical regeneration
Dechmann, Louis
Diet therapy; Health
Consomme of pigeon, chicken, veal, mutton, beef, beef tea, meat jelly
(which becomes liquid under the influence of the heat of the body,)
strained soups or such as are prepared of the finest flour with water or
bouillon, of barley, oats, rice (thick soup), green corn, rye flour,
malted milk. All of these soups, with or without any additions, such as
raw eggs, either whole or the yolk only, if well mixed and not
coagulated, are easily digested.
_Form III. Nourishment which is not purely liquid, but partly
glutinous._
Milk and milk preparations (belonging to this group on account of their
coagulation in the stomach):
(a) Cow's milk, diluted and without cream, dilution with 1-2 to 2-3
barley water, rice water, lime water, vichy water, weak tea, or pure
water.
(b) Milk without cream, not diluted.
(c) Unskimmed milk.
(d) Cream, either diluted or undiluted.
(e) All of these milk combinations with an addition of yolk of egg,
well-mixed, whole egg, cocoa, also a combination of egg and cocoa.
Milk mush made of flour for children, arrowroot, mondanin, cereal flour
of every kind, especially oats, groat soups with tapioca or sago and
potato soup.
Egg,-raw, stirred, or sucked from the shell; or slightly warmed in a
cup; any of these, either with or without the addition of a little sugar
or salt.
Biscuit and crackers, softened or well masticated and salivated, taken
with milk, mush, etc.
_Form IV. Diet of the lightest kind, containing meat, but still mainly
glutinous._
Noodle soup, rice soup.
Mashed boiled brains or sweetbread, or puree of white or red roasted
meat, in soup.
Brains and sweetbread boiled.
Raw scraped meat (beef, ham, etc.)
Lean veal sausages, boiled.
Mashed potatoes prepared with milk.
Rice with bouillon or with milk.
Toasted rolls and toast.
_Form V. Light diet, containing meat in more solid form_:
Pigeon, Chicken boiled.
Small fish with little fat, such as brook or lake trout, boiled.
Scraped beefsteak, raw ham, boiled tongue.
As delicacies: Small quantities of caviar, frogs' legs, oysters,
sardelles softened in milk.
Salted potatoes crushed, spinach, young peas mashed, cauliflower,
asparagus-tips, mashed chestnuts, mashed turnips, fruit sauces.
Groat or sago puddings.
Rolls, white bread.
_Form VI. Somewhat heavier meat diet. (Gradually returning to ordinary
food)._
Pigeon, chicken, young deer, hare, everything roasted.
Beef tenderloin, tender roast beef, roast veal.
Boiled pike or carp.
Young turnips.
All dishes to be prepared with very little fat, butter to be used
exclusively. All strong spices to be avoided.
=NOTE=:--For special dietary in all diseases, see under each separate
tissue degeneration in the succeeding Chapter on Therapy.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] In the following chapter, several important paragraphs given in the
foregoing had to be repeated as the readers who were not interested in
the "Club" proposition, would miss these points.
NUTRITIVE COMPOSITIONS
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