The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-25

all food and drink must DO chosen with q
direct reference 10 their physical effects,
and they must be used 10 quantities sutt.
Client only to meet absolute requirements,
aud not 10 afford reserve store OF vitality.
The greatest care must be taken lest the
supply be Diminished so rapidly a. to 70.
duce the system too suddenly; and In or
binary cases change Of diet will serve
the purpose better than any excessive de.
crease In the quantity Of food.
This change Of diet should be made In
accordance with the accepted claSsifca-
ton Of foods into the heterogeneous, or
transforming, cArbonaceous, or heat-ma-
king, and phosphate, or brain and nerve
foods.
The elements to be avoided are the heat
foods, such as milk fresh white bread,po-
tatoes, leguminous vegetables, vegetable
and animal oils and fats, and all forms
OF sugar. The quantity Of drink should
be limited and what IL taken should con-
sist Of moderately cool water, or some
wine and water, and weak tea. Lean
meat and and game may DO used daily;
green vegetables, such rs onions, cabbage,
spinach, lettuce and celery, may be mod
erately used. Beets, parspipe, corn, car
rots and sweet fruits are undesirable on
account OF the excess Of sugar which they
contain. Eggs may be used II desired.
Dry bread and toast should entirely re-
place fresh bread.
Following is a modified specimen Diet
airy for decreasing flesh:
BreakfaA.-HRlf q pint Of tea with not
more than two tablespooniuls Of milk,
and very little sugar, one or two boiled
or poached eggs; two ounces each oil lean
meat, and toast or dry bread.
Dnner.-Half pint Of soup made
from lean meat and green vegetables, as
indicated above, with all the fat careful.
ly removed during its preparation; quar-.
ter Of pound each Of lean meat aud
green vegetables; two ounces each Of
plain boiled potatoes or maccaroon, and
toast Of stale bread; halt pint OF mod
erately cool water, one gill Of light wine,
or one glass Of table beer; plain puddings,
made without milk (such as roley. poley)
and plain boiled milk, may be used
when the diet 10 not vigorous.
Sappsr.-This meal should be light,
consisting Of half q pint Of tea, two
ounces each OF dry toast and meat, and
an ounce OF cheese.
II the appetite Graves more than the
above quantities, the bread, green vege-
tables, and lean meat may be increased.
In any Gaze the above diet Is only ap.
proximate, and must be modified BY
season, climate, and personal idiosyn.
crasies.
The chief point Ia that the change or
Limitation OF nutriment should not i'm
pair the general health and, consequent.
ly II should be made under the supervis-
ion Of physician cognizant Of all per-
sonal physical characteristics. Neither
curiosity or fancy should find indulgence
a, the expense Of general health.
/ have submitted these food facts to you
with the hope that they may be usefulin
indicating an outline Of the application Of
definite alimentary constituents to the
physical condition to which they are
suited. In one brief lecture it is impo.si.
Bile to do more than to suggest possible
tiles which every professional worker
must apply In person 10 use among his or
her patients; and from that application
verify the general alimentsry principles
which underlie the physiology Of nutri.
ton; the exact scientific ground whose
borders only am entitled to invade, in
the persuit Of my special calling.