Liquid Or Fabinaceous 4

Cereals, bread, jellies, liquids, ice cream, custard, blanc-mange, puddings (without raisins), chicken.

1 Diet used at Nathan Littauer Hospital, Gloversville, New York.

2 Diet used at Bellevue Hospital, New York.

3 Diet used at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York.

4 Diet used at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Farinaceous Diet

Breakfast

Tea or coffee (milk and sugar). Bread and butter: white bread or graham bread or rolls or muffins or toast. Cereals.

Dinner

Soup: vegetable or macaroni or barley broth. Bread or crackers. Vegetables: baked potatoes or tomatoes or French beans or rice or macaroni or samp. Puddings: rice or bread or cracker or tapioca or farina or cornstarch or arrowroot.

Supper

Tea (milk and sugar). Bread and milk or milk toast or hominy or boiled rice or puffed rice with custards or milk or farina or banana or potatoes baked. Fruit: apples (stewed or baked) or prunes or pears or peaches or apricots (other fruits).

Nitrogenous Diet

Meat, fish, eggs (not fried), oysters, junket, custard, ice cream, string beans, soup and oatmeal; with crackers, fruit, butter and lettuce.

Breakfast

Milk or tea or coffee (with milk). Bread and butter: graham bread. Meats: eggs or fresh fish or stew without vegetables or meat or hash without potatoes.

Dinner

Soup: stock or chowder, graham bread. Meats: beef (roast or boiled) or fresh fish or Irish stew. Vegetables: spinach, lettuce, celery or string beans. Desserts: custards.

Supper

Tea (milk), graham bread and butter or bread and milk, eggs or cold meat.

Nutrient Diet 3

Two eggs strained through muslin into a tablespoon of cold water until dissolved. Add this to four to six ounces of cold milk, add one-half drachm salt, dissolved in water. If patient is very low add tincture opii (deodorized). At times beef juice, one-half drachm is added, but is not necessary.

Oxaluria Diet

Oxaluria, as the name signifies, is an excess of oxalate of lime in the form of crystals in the urine, usually affecting the nervous, irritable dyspeptic. It is considered that possibly the frequency of the disease among the poorer classes is due to an excessive vegetable diet, sugar and starch foods, combined with irritating activities. The diet should be carefully regulated, though liberal. All vegetables and drugs containing oxalates must be avoided; all lime or hard water should be forbidden and replaced by boiled or distilled water. Sugar should be prohibited, coffee and tea replaced by milk.

1 Diet used at Nathan Littauer Hospital, Gloversville, New York.

2 Diet used at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

3 Elbridge J. Cutler, M.D.: Diet used at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Avoid asparagus, celery, cauliflower, green beans, tomatoes, spinach, rhubarb, potatoes, sorrel, carrots, parsnips, berries, apples, pears, plums, grapes, chocolate and cocoa. Cut carbohydrates low. Give this: (1) eggs, toast, milk; (2) meat or fish, green vegetables, except those forbidden; peas, onions, custard, fruit, ice cream; (3) cereals, cold meat, cooked fruit, except forbidden forms.