Diet In Sickness And In Health | by Mrs. Ernest Hart
In presenting this book to the public I am actuated by the hope that it will prove useful to those who are sick, and to those who have to nurse, feed, and prescribe for the sick, and that it will aid the healthy to preserve health. Believing that lay readers will act with greater intelligence if they understand the rationale of a diet.
| Title | Diet In Sickness And In Health |
| Author | Mrs. Ernest Hart |
| Publisher | The Scientific Press Ltd |
| Year | 1895 |
| Copyright | 1895, The Scientific Press Ltd |
| Amazon | Diet in Sickness and in Health |
By Mrs. Ernest Hart, Formerly Student Of The Faculty Ok Medicine Of Paris And Of The London School Of Medicine For Women, Author Of " The Micrometric Measurements Of The Blood Corpuscles And The Estimation Of Their Haemoglobin", " The Third Or Invisible Norris Corpuscle ", "On The Formation Of Fibrine," And Translator Of "Cornil And Ranvier's Pathological Histology," Etc., Etc.
With An Introduction By Sir Henry Thompson, F.R.C.S., M.B., London
Author's Preface- In presenting this book to the public I am actuated by the hope that it will prove useful to those who are sick, and to those who have to nurse, feed, and prescribe for the sick, and that it will aid ...
- Introduction
- In few departments of medical knowledge are precision and resource more desirable than in that of medical dietetics. The selection and prescription of foods for the delicate, the sick and the aged req...
- Chapter I. Food And Food Values. The Albuminates
- BEFORE entering on the consideration of questions of Diet and Dietetics, it is of the first importance that the processes of digestion and assimilation of food in the body should be thoroughly underst...
- What Is The Meaning Of Metabolism
- The albuminates, or nitrogenous foods, were formerly designated by the older writers on dietetics as flesh-formers, the hydro-carbons, or non-nitrogenous foods, being classified as force-producers: Re...
- Do The English Eat Too Much Meat? The Amount Of Albuminous Food Necessary
- A certain amount of albuminous food is necessary for the repair of the body, which is wasted, even in those who live sedentary lives, by the constant activity and change taking place in the organs; bu...
- What Becomes Of The Albumen
- The albumen which is taken with the food undergoes, after digestion, and the assimilation of the elements necessary for tissue construction, retrogressive changes, and it is finally thrown into the bl...
- Chapter II. Food And Food Values. Hydro-Carbons And Carbo-Hydrates. Fats - Sugar - Starch
- In the group of hydro-carbons or fats are included all vegetable and animal fatty foods, such as oils, suet, butter, etc. The value and necessity of fat as an article of food is obvious from the fa...
- The Uses Of Fat
- We all know that combustion is caused by the combination of the oxygen of the air with the freed carbon of the substance which is being consumed. It was taught by Liebig that fat split up in the body,...
- How Carbo-Hydrates Produce Power
- It is taught generally that the action of carbo-hydrates is that of powerproducers in the body; that is to say, that during muscular contraction, or in fact, in order that it may take place, a carbo-h...
- Chapter III. Stimulants. Alcohol
- THERE is no subject respecting which such opposite opinions have been expressed as on the value of alcohol as an article of diet; and there is also no subject on which it is more difficult to express ...
- The Effects Of Alcohol
- Alcohol has the effect of stimulating the cardiac centres and of increasing the number and volume of the heart-beats, and also of dilating the arterioles, thus temporarily producing a sensation of war...
- The Amount Of Alcohol Which Can Be Taken With Impunity
- There is a general consensus of opinion on the part of physicians that from 1 to 11/2 oz. of pure alcohol is the maximum amount which a healthy man should take in twenty-four hours. Translated into co...
- The Pernicious Habit Of Taking Nips
- Whatever may be the opinion or judgment, based on experience or science, as to the value or uselessness of taking some form of alcohol with the meals, there is no doubt in anybody's mind that the cust...
- The Use Of Alcohol In Disease
- Much as opinions may differ, however, respecting the value of alcohol as an article of diet in health, or in a condition of slightly impaired health and vigour, there can be no doubt that in the hands...
- Chapter IV. Stimulants. The Coca Of Peru - Coca Wine
- That all men and women feel the weariness of life is testified by the fact that the people of all nations and all climes have the universal habit of daily seeking a restorative and stimulant in one of...
- The Staying Powers Of Coca
- I have had some small experience of the value of one of these under exceptional circumstances. When reading some years ago in Paris, under pressure of time, for public viva voce medical examinations I...
- Cocaine
- The most valuable substance extracted from coca is cocaine, which from its power of producing local and superficial anaesthesia has been much used of recent years in operations on the eyes, teeth, etc...
- Chapter V. Restoratives. Tea. How Tea Is Prepared
- The restorative properties of tea are well known and universally admitted. To partake of the cup that cheers but not inebriates has become a national habit, and is indulged in equally by the riches...
- The Constituents Of Tea
- Tea contains three active principles to which it owes its peculiar properties and characteristics. These are theine, a crystallisable alkaloid, to which is due its stimulating and restorative properti...
- The Physiological Effects Of Tea
- Universal experience teaches us that tea exhilarates without intoxicating, stimulates the circulation, excites the brain to increased activity, promotes wakefulness, and banishes the sense of wearines...
- How To Make Good Tea
- The evil effects of tea have been attributed to the methods in vogue of making it. We have seen that the soluble theine is at once dissolved in the hot water, but that the tannin contained in the coar...
- National Customs In Tea Drinking
- In England tea is drunk with sugar and milk. Some contend that this custom has been introduced owing to the fact that we drink coarse tea, so strong in tannin that it is necessary to add sugar and mil...
- Chapter VI. Restoratives. Coffee - Cocoa - Chocolate. Coffee Is A Valuable Restorative
- Though coffee closely resembles tea in constitution, it has its own special characteristics and properties. From time immemorial it has been known and valued in Arabia, the native home of the coffee p...
- The Constituents Of Coffee
- Coffee, like tea, contains three active principles. These are the alkaloid caffeine, which is identical with, and has the same properties as theine; secondly, an astringent substance resembling tannin...
- The Physiological Effects Of Coffee
- Coffee has been called in France an intellectual drink, owing to the fact that it has a decided stimulating influence on the nervous centres, lessening the need for sleep, and increasing the capaci...
- How To Make Good Coffee
- Coffee is not sufficiently appreciated in this country. This is due in a great measure to the imperfect way in which it is made. Coffee should be purchased in small quantities fresh roasted, should be...
- Cocoa
- Cocoa is derived from the seed of a plant called the theobroma cacao. The name was given by the botanist Linnseus, who expressed his high opinion of cocoa by the name theobroma, which means food fo...
- Chapter VII. Water
- When it is remembered that water forms from 60 to 70 per cent. of the body, and that it enters into the composition of every living tissue, it can be readily understood how important an article of die...
- Filtration Of Water
- A great variety of filters have been invented. The principle is the same in most of them; namely, to pass the water through some finely granular material, such as gravel, manganic iron, or charcoal, w...
- Boiling Water
- Water is rendered quite harmless by boiling. In cases where it is not possible to have a pure water supply, where the water can only be obtained from a polluted river or well, cases which are common e...
- The Organic Salts
- The universal custom of eating common salt with food testifies to a need of the body for this particular material. Such, indeed, is the fact. Chloride of sodium, or common salt, is found in all the ti...
- Chapter VIII. Under-Feedixg And Over-Eating
- Thanks to the careful and lengthened studies and the recorded observations of physicians and sanitarians, more especially of prison and army doctors, there is no subject in physiology on which we poss...
- How The Poor Live
- Now let us consider these dietaries and bald statements of fact in the light of experience, and learn something of how the poor live. In a thoughtful article by Mrs. S. A. Barnett (which was published...
- Wages And Starvation
- Now, it is apparent that on the lowest estimate and with all possible care and knowledge the daily necessary food of a working man, his wife, and eight children, cannot cost less than on an average 2s...
- Chapter IX. Under-Feeding And Over-Eating. Food In Youth And Middle Age
- The story is told of a great lady, who had been the wife in succession to three husbands, all of whom had been devoted to her - for she was a woman of unusual intelligence, beauty, and character - tha...
- In Youth Food Should Be Abundant
- At this time the body is not only growing, but tissue change or metabolism is active, leading to vigorous life. The youthful body is, if healthy, intensely and restlessly active, and energy is redunda...
- Amount To Eat In Adult Life
- When the processes of digestion and assimilation are active, when all the organs are healthy and the body has the power of eliminating and discharging effete products, the intake of food may be in exc...
- The Bilious Attack A Warning
- The generous diet of adolescence, even of those who undertake active muscular exercise, must, however, be watched with care. The recurrent bilious attack, the frequent headache or migraine, or an incr...
- Ill-Temper A Symptom Of Excessive Meat-Eating
- One deplorable result of excessive meat-eating in England is the ill-temper which is a chronic moral complaint among us. In no country, I believe, is home rendered so unhappy and life made so miserabl...
- The Diet Of The Athlete
- On the other hand it may be justly urged that though the too liberal use of meat by those who live sedentary lives and who are past middle age is strongly to be deprecated, and though it is a fact tha...
- Meat Necessary For Continuous Exertion
- In countries where continuous physical exertion is the necessity of life, man has generally discovered for himself, without the teaching of science, the great value of a meat diet. Thus, in the limitl...
- Chapter X. Under-Feeding And Over-Eating. The Food And Feeding Of The Aged
- It may seem hard that the man who in youth has known the pinch of poverty, who remembers how the cut of mutton, with a supply of potatoes and greens, scarcely sufficed for a vigorous appetite, should ...
- Centenarians
- Sir George Humphry has investigated the life-histories of centenarians in England, with the view of ascertaining the causes and circumstances of longevity. The report was published by the Collective I...
- Cornaro's Precepts And Practice
- The most remarkable of these persons was Cornaro, an Italian nobleman, who lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and who attained the age of upwards of a hundred years. He seems in middle li...
- Chapter XI. Dishes For The Aged
- After having insisted, as I have done, upon the necessity of diminishing the intake of food, particularly of albuminous foods, in old age, it will not, I think, be out of place if I give a few recipes...
- How To Prepare Dishes For The Aged
- Stewed Cod Have ready some boiling water in a saucepan and put a little salt in it. Take a slice of cod about an inch thick and half a pound in weight. Clean it and put it into the boiling water an...
- How To Make Soup For The Aged
- Sweetbread Soup Boil a pair of sweetbreads for five minutes with a little water; skin, trim, and boil them gently in one and a half pints of white stock, with a bouquet of herbs, a piece of celery,...
- Chapter XII. On Thinning And Fattening. Thinning The Fat
- The accumulation of fat in the body is a frequent condition after the age of forty. Those who have read the previous chapters will not be surprised to learn that this accumulation of fat is generally ...
- There Are Three Typical And Well-Known Methods Of Treating Obesity
- One has a wide popularity, and is known by the name of its inventor, Banting. This system consists in increasing the amount of albuminous or meat foods, and of greatly decreasing both the fat and star...
- Dietetic Rules For The Fat
- None of the rigid dietaries given above could be followed by all persons alike; the amount of food necessary for a large active person would be excessive for one of small stature and indolent habits. ...
- Chapter XIII. On Thinning And Fattening. Fattening The Thin
- There is no doubt that in spite of the controlling influence of diet, some persons have a tendency to grow fat, and that others either become or remain thin. It is more difficult to make a person thin...
- The Weir Mitchell Treatment
- This system of treatment consists in rest, isolation, over-feeding, passive exercise or massage and electricity, and is known by the name of its founder, Dr. Weir-Mitchell. The patient is taken from h...
- The Blood Should Be Examined
- The success of this treatment is now established. Dr. Weir-Mitchell is anxious to insist on the fact that increase of weight should correspond with increased richness of blood. The number and colour o...
- The Reasonableness Of Dietetic Treatment
- This case illustrates the fact that each case should be treated scientifically, intelligently, and on its merits. It is as futile as it is dangerous for the unlearned to prescribe dietetic rules for t...
- Chapter XIV. Digestion
- Having now considered the nature and constitution of the various foods which sustain and build up the body, I will proceed to describe the methods and processes by which they are digested and assimila...
- Digestion In The Stomach
- The stomach is a large, hollow, bag-like organ, larger at one end than the other, and furnished with strong muscular walls which can contract in every direction. It is lined inside with a highly organ...
- The Digestion Of Albuminous Substances
- A large part of the food is necessarily composed of albuminous substances. They form, as I have shown, the chief constituents of meat, cheese, milk, and eggs, and are found in many vegetable foods, su...
- Chapter XV. Digestion In The Duodenum
- The duodenum is a strong muscular tube, about twelve inches in length (whence the name), which curves round the head of the pancreas or sweetbread. At about the centre of the duodenum will be found th...
- Digestion Of Fat
- We have now seen how albumen, starch and sugar are digested; but there remains the digestion of one other large and important element of the food to be described, namely, fat. Fat is not acted upon ei...
- The Liver And The Bile
- About the level of the orifice of the pancreatic duct in the duodenum is found another small opening, which is that of the bile duct. Through this the bile is poured into the intestine. The bile is pr...
- The Uses Of The Bile
- It is allowed on all sides that the bile is a fluid of great importance in the digestive process, but what part it actually plays in this process has not yet been fully ascertained. Of its uses we are...
- Digestion In The Intestine
- From the duodenum the food passes into the small intestine. The small intestine measures in the adult male seven and a half yards long. Throughout the whole of this length its internal surface or muco...
- The Large Intestine And Its Contents
- The opening of the small intestine into the large is by a narrow slit called the ileo-caecal valve. By the time that the chyle enters the large intestine, its fluid particles and the large amount of i...
- Chapter XVI. Digestion. Absorption - Excretion. Absorption By The Veins Of The Stomach
- The absorption of fluids by the minute radicles of the veins of the stomach is so rapid that in cases of poisoning by hydrocyanic acid, death occurs in a few seconds. There is no doubt that the gastri...
- Absorption From The Intestines. The Villi And Lacteals
- If a portion of the small intestine of any vertebrate animal be opened, washed, and floated in water, its internal surface will be seen to resemble that of velvet, and to be covered with a countless n...
- The Portal Circulation
- The blood, now laden with the products of digestion, passes from the venous capillaries of the stomach and intestines to the blood vessels of the mesentery. These pour their contents into a large vess...
- The Blood Is Charged With The Elements Of Tissue Change
- Thus in passing through the two great separative and constructive organs of the body, the lungs and the liver, the venous blood, charged both with the products of decomposition (carbonic acid gas), an...
- How To Recapitulate
- I. - I. Starchy foods are converted into glucose in the mouth by the action of the saliva, and in the duodenum by the action of the pancreatic juice. 2. Albuminous foods are converted into soluble ...
- Chapter XVII. Indigestion
- HAVING described the various foods used by civilised man, and the processes in the human economy by which these foods are digested, I propose now to consider the deflections from the normal in the lon...
- Indigestion In The Stomach
- The most important part of digestion takes place in the stomach. Here the food is thoroughly triturated by the movements of the muscular walls of the stomach, and mixed with the mucus and gastric juic...
- The Principle Of Treatment By Dietetic Rest
- I am convinced that indigestion need not be such an universal complaint if people would treat their bodies in the same way as they treat their employees, and make them work hard on the lowest possible...
- Duodenal Indigestion
- After the food has been acted upon by the gastric juice in the stomach, and the albuminoids have been in a great measure rendered soluble and absorbed, the acid chyme passes into the duodenum, where i...
- The Symptoms Of Indigestion
- In those in whom the process of digestion is normal, eating gives only a sensation of satisfaction. The food passes from the stomach into the duodenum without exciting any uncomfortable feelings, and ...
- Chapter XVIII. Invalid Foods
- The preparation of food for those who are seriously ill is a matter of vital importance, for the life of the patient often depends either on the maintenance of strength during the acute period of the ...
- How To Make Beef-Teas And Beef-Juices
- 1. Remove all the fat and skin from one pound of fresh gravy beef; cut it up in small pieces, and put it in a stone jar with a pint of cold water and a little salt. Replace the lid of the jar, and let...
- Malted Foods
- We have seen that in the digestion of starch, it is acted upon by a diastase which is contained both in the saliva and in the pancreatic juice, which diastase converts starch into glucose or grape sug...
- How To Make Malt Infusion (Sir William Roberts' Method)
- Mix three ounces of crushed malt thoroughly well with half a pint of cold water in a jug. Let the mixture stand over night. The supernatant liquid is then carefully decanted off from the sediment and ...
- Peptonised Foods
- In cases of extreme debility of the digestive organs or arrest of the digestive function in the stomach, the opportunity which science gives the invalid of having digestion accomplished for him outsid...
- Chapter XIX. Acute Gastritis
- INDIGESTION may sometimes pass, owing to some temporary cause, from the chronic condition to the acute form of gastritis. The causes of acute gastritis are various. Some particular article of food,...
- Emptying The Stomach
- When acute gastritis is first set up, and it is suspected that the pain is caused by some undigested article of food in the stomach, it is well to wash out this organ without delay. This can be done w...
- Recipe For Leube's Meat Solution
- One pound of lean beef is minced very fine and mixed in a fire-proof porcelain jar with a pint of water and three teaspoonfuls of pure hydrochloric acid. The mixture is then placed in a Papin's digest...
- Nutrient Enemata
- In cases where the gastritis is both acute and persistent, in which nausea and vomiting are incessant, and the weakness of the patient progressive, it may be necessary in order to give the stomach res...
- Chapter XX. Ulcer Of The Stomach
- When dyspepsia is of long duration and severe in character, and is accompanied with persistent vomiting and acute pain after food, ulcer of the stomach may be suspected; if to these symptoms is added ...
- Treatment For Ulcer Of The Stomach By Diet
- It is obvious that in this distressing and painful malady diet is of the greatest importance, the necessity and aim being to maintain the strength of the patient by such food as can be digested withou...
- Useful Recipes For Convalescents
- Puree Of Chicken Remove all the skin and bones from part of a roast chicken. Chop the meat, pound it in a mortar and rub it through a sieve. Take the bones of the chicken and boil them for several ...
- Chapter XXI. Diabetes
- Diabetes was considered not so long ago to be an incurable and inevitably fatal disease. Thanks, however, to the labours of Claude Bernard, Germain See, and Pavy, the cause of this mysterious wasting ...
- The Action Of Starch In The Body, And What Becomes Of It
- Starch is quite indigestible in the uncooked state; when cooked it is insoluble, and incapable of passing through the membranes of the blood vessels of the stomach and intestine. To be rendered solubl...
- The Cause Of Diabetes
- Now it is obvious that, if by some morbid change in the liver cells they have lost the power of arresting the sugar and converting it into glycogen, the sugar will pass into the general circulation, a...
- Two Opposite Causes For Diabetes
- It is seen from the foregoing that similar symptoms are produced by totally opposite conditions. In diabetes minor the glycogenic function of the liver is depressed, and it fails to convert the sugar ...
- Chapter XXII. Diabetes - (Continued)
- The dietetic treatment of diabetes is one of intelligent watchfulness. Cases differ so much from one another that no hard and fast rule applicable to all can be laid down. What is harmful to one patie...
- Beverages Suitable For Diabetes
- Tea and coffee. Cocoa made from nibs and mixed with cream. Water, soda-water. Vichy and Apollinaris waters. Claret and Burgundy. Dry sauterne and chablis. Champagne, sugar free. Brandy and whisky, ...
- The Examination Of The Urine
- In order satisfactorily to carry out the dietetic treatment of a diabetic patient it is necessary to examine the urine daily. The initial physical sign of diabetes is the excretion of sugar; stop this...
- Weighing A Diabetic Patient
- Emaciation is frequently a marked symptom of diabetes, and one which it is most important to check. A weighing machine should form part of the furniture of the bedroom of a diabetic, and he should be ...
- Chapter XXIII. Diabetes. Menus And Recipes. The Principles Of A Diabetic Dietary
- In order to facilitate the duties of the cook and housekeeper in providing for a diabetic patient an agreeable dietary, from which starch and sugar have been excluded, I have arranged a series of menu...
- A Week's Menus For A Diabetic
- (Time - Summer.) First Day Breakfast Buttered eggs. Sole, fried in butter, with lemon juice added when served. Cocoa made from nibs, with cream. and torrefied bread . (1) Lunch ...
- A Week's Menus For A Diabetic. Part 2
- Second Day Breakfast Fresh haddock fried in butter. Cold tongue. Coffee and cream. Lunch Vegetable marrow farcie. (7) Devilled ham and French beans. (8) Cheddar cheese with diabetic ...
- A Week's Menus For A Diabetic. Part 3
- Fourth Day Breakfast Curried eggs (without rice). (12) Ham. Cocoa made from nibs, with cream. Lunch Braised knuckle of veal with mixed vegetables. (13) Foie gras with diabetic biscui...
- Chapter XXIV. Diabetes. A Week's Menus For A Diabetic
- (Time - Winter.) First Day Breakfast Smoked salmon. Kidneys and bacon, on a bed of Brussels sprouts. Nib cocoa and cream. Lunch Roast grouse. Baked custard pudding, with bo...
- A Week's Menus For A Diabetic. Continued
- Fourth Day Breakfast Fried bacon, served on a puree of Brussels sprouts. Cold pheasant. Van Houten's cocoa and cream. Lunch Braised leg of Welsh mutton, with tomatoes and mushrooms. ...
- Chapter XXV. Diabetes. Carlsbad. Marienbad, Vichy
- CARLSBAD has been called the hospital for diabetics It is a hospital, however, of which the walls are the pine-clad hills, the roof the sunny sky, and the medicine the hot bubbling streams. At Carls...
- Carlsbad. Marienbad, Vichy. Continued
- The Midday Meal The patient will then go home and rest for a while, till at about one o'clock the pangs of hunger become irresistible. He betakes himself to one of the many large airy restaurants f...
- Chapter XXVI. Gout
- Gout seems to be the most ancient, the most persistent, and still the most incomprehensible of diseases. Its origin, its cause, and its cure are almost as little understood now as in the time of the R...
- Uric Acid Formation In Gout
- Now, it can easily be understood that if by some fault in the organism the oxidation of albumen is not completed and carried on to the final production of urea, but stops short at the production of a ...
- The Want Of Physiological Balance In Gout
- Now, it will be understood that, if by some inherited or acquired vice of the constitution the gouty person has not the power of oxidising the amount of food ordinarily taken, there will consequently ...
- The Kinds Of Food To Be Taken And Avoided
- Foods containing starch and sugar should be avoided or taken in moderation. As already explained, starch is turned into glucose or sugar by the process of digestion, so that starch and sugar may be co...
- Exercise And Fresh Air
- It is important not only to limit the amount of food to be oxidised and disposed of in the body, but to increase the power of oxidation. This is best done by exercise and fresh air. Exercise stimulate...
- Chapter XXVII. Dishes For The Gouty. A Week's Menus
- First Day Breakfast A boiled egg and dry toast. Cocoa from nibs with added milk and sweetened with saccharin. (1) Lunch Baked apples and custard pudding. Lime-juice lemonade. (2) Din...
- Chapter XXVIII. Uric Acid As A Cause Of Disease, And Its Prevention By Diet
- WHEN explaining the part played by albumen in the food supply of the body, it will be remembered that I described how the albuminoids, composed of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen, yielded up th...
- Uric Acid The Cause Of Headache
- This whole subject has been very carefully studied by Dr. Alexander Haig, and the results of his inquiry are embodied in a book called Uric Acid as a Factor in the Causation of Disease. Dr. Haig was l...
- Decreased Excretion Of Uric Acid Causes Symptoms Of Gout, " Bile," And Headache
- He believes, however, that this excess is not due to excessive formation of uric acid, but to decreased excretion. The formation of uric acid is, Dr. Haig states, always as compared to urea as 1 to 33...
- Treatment Of Gout By Vegetable Diet
- Having arrived at the cause of his periodic headaches, and having formed the opinion that in order to prevent them the formation of uric acid must be diminished, and the high alkalinity of the blood m...
- "Bilious Headache."
- Dr. Haig argues that not only the so-called bilious headache, but also gout, rheumatism, and epilepsy are caused by excess of uric acid in the blood, and may be controlled by limiting the consumptio...
- The Daily Dietary To Ensure Cure Of Gout
- In order that this blessed result may be obtained by these sufferers, Dr. Haig lays down the following regime to be adhered to:- Animal Food Milk, 1 to 1 1/2 pints, previously boiled. Eggs, ...
- Chapter XXIX. Consumption
- Consumption was once thought to be both an incurable and an unpreventable disease. It came mysteriously; it often attacked the youngest and the fairest; it destroyed promising careers; and unless it c...
- Treatment Of Consumption By Super-Alimentation
- A consumptive patient should be carefully weighed at frequent and regular intervals; if he gains weight it is well, but if he loses, a serious effort must be made to induce him to take more food. Some...
- The Treatment Of Consumption By Koumiss
- Koumiss is fermented mare's milk, and has long been a favourite beverage with the Tartars and other Asiatic tribes. In Russia consumptives go to certain stations on the Caspian Sea to undergo the koum...
- The Treatment Of Consumption By Powdered Raw Meat
- An excess of food can be given to a consumptive more easily by administering powdered raw meat than by any other method. Dujardin Beaumetz, who was an advocate of this method of treatment, recommended...
- Tubercle Bacillus Conveyed By Milk
- There is no doubt that the tubercle bacillus can be conveyed to the human subject by milk from tuberculous cows, and that children have been infected in this way and have lost their lives. It is there...
- Chapter XXX. Rickets
- Rickets was at one time thought to be a disease of the bones; it is now known to be a general disease caused by malnutrition, and which is almost always preventable. The well-known changes which take ...
- Infants' Natural Food
- I must stop for a moment to consider the proper and natural food for infants. This is, of course, mother's milk; but if not obtainable either from the child's own parent or a foster mother, then cow's...
- Symptoms Of Rickets
- The earliest and least distinctive symptoms of rickets are restlessness and slight feverishness at night; the child sweats profusely, and continually throws off its bed-clothes. Next is noticed an unw...
- Dietetic Treatment Of Rickets
- Dr. Cheadle considers that too much reliance is placed on cod-liver oil, chemical food, lime, and iron. Drugs are not so useful as proper diet. Cream can take the place of cod-liver oil, milk of chemi...
- Chapter XXXI. Scrofula And Scurvy. Scrofula
- This is a disease which is supposed to be hereditary and is stated by some to be allied to consumption. A scrofulous child does not, however, often become consumptive. The signs of the disease are wel...
- Scurvy
- Allied to rickets and resembling it in many of its characteristics is the once dreaded disease of scurvy. Scurvy is still occasionally seen in hospitals, especially among children. It was once the sco...
- Symptoms Of Scurvy
- The disease begins gradually. The person who is stricken with scurvy first suffers from a feeling of increasing weakness and constant fatigue, and a sense of soreness in all the limbs. He becomes deep...
- Dietetic Treatment Of Scurvy
- It is highly satisfactory when one has to treat such a painful and pitiful disease as scurvy, to know that recovery is usually assured by the simple act of changing the diet, and putting the patient o...
- Scurvy In Children
- Helpless babes need not have scurvy if their mothers knew how to feed them properly; but owing to the absence of anti-scorbutic elements in their foods, children sometimes suffer from this disease in ...
- Chapter XXXII. Fever
- The rise of the body temperature is the pathognomonic sign of fever. It is not, however, the only symptom which constitutes it. The well-known pathological condition known as fever is manifested by a ...
- The Waste Of Albumen
- To this end there are certain well-ascertained facts to guide us. In normal health the intake of albumen in the food is balanced by the re-constitution of the albuminous tissues and fluids in the body...
- Diet Indications When In Fever
- If attention has been given to the foregoing explanation, which has been rendered as clear and simple as the difficulties of the subject allow, it is evident that the aim of dietetic treatment in feve...
- Chapter XXXIII. Typhoid Fever
- Typhoid fever is caused by the presence in the intestines of a minute bacillus, which is most commonly introduced into the body by the means of polluted water or milk, or, as some suppose, by aerial t...
- The Morbid Changes In The Intestine
- When a person is infected with typhoid by swallowing the bacilli typhi in the water or food, the microbes make their way to the Peyer's patches and solitary glands, where they find their proper soil. ...
- Physiological Rest The Rational Treatment Of Typhoid Fever
- Knowledge of the processes of inflammation going on in the intestines of a typhoid patient gives the indication for treatment. This is in a word physiological rest. Let the bowel remain as immobile as...
- Typhoid Patients Sometimes Killed By Their Friends' Kindness
- Every hospital student can recall cases in which a promising typhoid case, recovering from an acute attack, has suffered a sudden relapse, with, perhaps, perforation and death. On inquiry it is often ...
- Diet During Convalescence
- This is often extremely difficult to arrange. As soon as the temperature falls to normal, the appetite of the patient often becomes voracious. His piteous demands for food are almost irresistible; but...
- Dietetic Precautions In Preventing Typhoid
- It must never be forgotten that typhoid fever is a filth disease, and that its most frequent cause is the pollution of drinking water by infiltration from drains or cesspools containing the specific p...
- Chapter XXXIV. Chronic Bright's Disease. The Pathology Of Bright's Disease
- If my readers will turn to the chapter in which the structure of the kidney is described, it will be found that that organ is represented as performing the part of a scavenger and a filter in the body...
- The Symptoms Of Bright's Disease
- The consequences are increasing weakness and frequently emaciation, en-feeblement of the mental powers owing to the presence of effete products in the blood, thickening of the arteriesdue to the irrit...
- Causes Of Bright's Disease
- These are acute fevers, cold, alcohol, and excessive eating of meat. Acute albuminuria is an almost constant symptom in scarlet fever, and frequently also of the other eruptive fevers. In these cas...
- Treatment Of Bright's Disease By Diet
- Two objects must here be aimed at: to diminish the loss of albumen, and the production of effete excretory products. It has been erroneously thought that, because albumen is lost by the kidney, there ...
- What An Albuminuric May And May Not Take
- There are certain things which the albuminuric must avoid, and they are briefly butcher's meat and alcohol. There is one thing, however, which an albuminuric may take in abundance, but which is oft...
- Chapter XXXV. Chronic Bright's Disease. Dishes For The Albuminuric. Recipes For Vegetable Soups
- The study of the preparation of various dishes and soups which shall be at the same time nutritious and appetising and yet not too stimulating and nitrogenous, becomes the duty of the housekeeper who ...
- Methods Of Cooking Macaroni For The Albuminuric
- Macaroni is also, as the same careful observer points out, an article of diet greatly neglected by the English, and would be valuable in the cases we are considering. The methods of cooking macaroni, ...
- Scientific Press List. Art Of Feeding The Invalid
- By a Medical Practitioner and a Lady Professor of Cookery. A popular treatise on the most frequent disorders: with detailed lists of suitable diet and original recipes for daily use. Mrs. Erne...
- Helps In Sickness And To Health
- Where to Go and What to Do. Being a Guide to Home Nursing and a Handbook to Health in the Habitation, the Nursery, the Schoolroom, and the Person, with a chapter on Pleasure and Health Resorts. By ...
- Infant Feeding: By Artificial Means
- A Scientific and Practical Treatise on the Dietetics of Infancy. By S. H. Sadler, Author of Suggestions to Mothers, Management of Children, Education. Mrs. Sadler's book deals with the questio...
- The Mother's Help And Guide To The Domestic Management Of Children
- By P. Murray Braidwood, M.D., Formerly Senior Medical Officer to the Wirral Hospital for Sick Children. To many young mothers it should prove invaluable. - Provincial Medical Journal. We do ...
- Spinal Curvature
- And Awkward Deportment: their Causes and Prevention in Children. By Dr. George Muller, Professor of Medicine and Orthopcedics, Berlin. English Edition, edited and adapted by Richard Greene, F.R....
- How To Become A Nurse: And How To Succeed
- A complete guide to the nursing profession for those who wish to become Nurses, and a useful book of Reference for Nurses who have completed their training and seek employment. Compiled by Honnor Mort...
- The Nurse's Dictionary Of Medical Terms And Nursing Treatment
- Compiled for the use of Nurses. By Honnor Morten. Containing descriptions of the Principal Medical and Nursing Terms and Abbreviations, Instruments, Drugs, Diseases, Accidents, Treatments, Physi...
- The Theory And Practice Of Nursing
- A Text-book for Nurses. By Percy G. Lewis, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.S.A. Always a standard work on Nursing; it now occupies the position of a classic, being used throughout the world in Training School...
- Ophthalmic Nursing
- By Sydney Stephenson, M.B., F.R.C.S.E., Surgeon to the Ophthalmic School, Hanwell, W., etc., etc. A valuable contribution to Nursing literature on a subject hitherto never handled with special refe...
- Mental Nursing
- A Text-book specially designed for the instruction of Attendants on the Insane. By William Harding, M.D. The want of a complete book for the instruction of Asylum Attendants has been long felt, and it...
- Art Of Massage
- By A. Creighton Hale. A complete Text-book of this valuable art. The most practical, simple, and generally useful work published on the subject. With fully illustrated chapters on the Anatomy of th...
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