The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
The Dyspeptics.

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that may be of service to people whose
stomachs bother them:
Strong beef tea, made from almost
fabulous amounts of beef, on which the
housewife proudly dilates-well, it is
the fashion, so it must best be spoken
of with circumspection-is fraud! or
something akin thereto. Its food value
has yet to be demonstrated! Not long
ago calves-foot jelly was indispensable
in conditions of debility; its day is now
over, it is little heard of.
Strong beef tea, meat essences, meat
juice, are pleasant and certainly
patients think they are proper things
for the debilitated. Well, they NAV be
so, If and provided they take something
else as we'll. But to give the starving
patient, starving in the midst of plenty,
these things to feed him, is giving him
a stone when he asks for bread. A little
light food which can be- digestcd is in
finitely better for him.
This is something like what should be
arrived at:
Breakfast: Porridge, oatmeal or
hominy, with milk, to start with; to set
the children a good example.
Then little cold meat. or bacon, or
fish, with cup of coffee, tea cocoa. Some
fruit.
Lunch: Some potatoes mashed, with
plenty of milk and butter. better still
cream, peppered and sailed, aud brown.
ed before the fire.
A little cold minced meat in a thin
layer, not to be further cooked, but only
to be made hot, may be added. Some
cold milk pudding, left over from the
the dinner of the day before. and some
stewed fruit. A glass of milk, c]aret or
sherry may be permissible. Let it be
little. No glasses of wine betwixt
meals to ''whip one up Such habit is
bad. very bad!
Dinner: A little light soup, some
boiled fish, very little Joint, or some
game or entree like sweetbread or
spinach and p6ached egg; some milk
pudding and stewcd fruit.
Wine, two glasses of the wines men,
toned or perhaps if the patient be very
sure that it does good, and suits better
than anything else-one glass of port
wine. Aerated waters are objection
able, they are too gaseous; while aka
line waters are not good at meal-times,
they reduce the acidity of the
stomach, which is essential to the d.
gestive action in the said stomach.
Now as to dessert. Perhaps l am
going to be heretical; perhaps only "a
little advanced. Nuts are certainly
tn ha oAv Ak-
Oranges, pomeloes and shaddocks are
like grapes, unobjectionable if the
juice only be swallowed; apples, pears,
Plums, gooseberries, cherries, straw
berries, each and all are good. The
salts, potash, and others of sub-acid
fruits are good for the ''blood.' Often
these fruits are forbidden unneces-
sarily. If they disagree let item be
avoided, experience must be the sole
Judge of their admissibility. Only they
need not be eschewed wholesale. as is
too much the rule.
Bananas, figs, pine-apples, raisins,
preserved peaches and apricots. when
the fresh fruit cannot be obtained. are
also good; candied fruits, perhaps, are
not as rule admissible.
supper: "A OrauSnC OF milk and an
arrow-root biscuit is the best and light
est. 1t is rarely required except after
an early dinner.
Some persons, however, must take
their food at short intervals. because
they can only digest little at once.
When the fast betwixt supper and
breakfast is too long a little milk and
a biscuit in the small hours of the
morning may be taken; or a tumbler of
milk with a teaspoonful of wine or
brandy in it may be taken on getting
out of bed to dress. With some this
enables them to take a fair breakfast