River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-04-01
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DR.. Fothergill suggests bill of fare
that may be of service to people whose
stomachs bother hem:
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 a fraud. Or
something akin thereto. Its food value
has yet to be dem Onstrated! Not long
ago calves-foot Jelly was Indispensable
in conditions of debility; Is 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
Tor the debilitated. Well, they may be
so, if and provided they take something
else rs 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 be asks for bread. A little
light food which can be digested Is in
tinitely better for him.
This is something like what should be
arrived a.:
Breakfast: Porridge, oatmeal or
homiuy, 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. and brown
ed before the fire.
A HELL .a1N ,,,snooI ,,,oe+ ~, 4bsr,
laver. 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, claret 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 a pOached egg; some milk
pudding and stewed fruit.
Wine, two glasses of the wines men
toned or perhaps if tia patient be very
sure that it does good, and suits. better
than any thing clse-one glass of port
wine. Aerated waters are objection
able, they are too gaseous; while aka
liEe waters are not good at meal-times.
they reduce the aCidity of the
stomach. which Is essential to the di-
gestive action in the said stomach.
Now as to dessert Perhaps / am
going to be heretical; perhaps only "a
little advanced. - Nuts are certainly
not to be advocated for the dvspeptic.
Oranges, pomeloes and shaddocks are
like grapes, unobiectionable if the
juice only be swallowed; apples, pears,
pluns, 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 unneees-
If they disagree let u EN- be
avoided, experience must be the sole
Judge Of their admissbility. Only they
need not be eschewed wholesale, as IS
too much the rule.
Bananas. figs. pine-apP1es, raisins.
preserved peaches and aprcOts, when
the fresh fruit cannot be obtained, are
also good; candied fruits, perhaps, are
not as rule admissible.
supper: A draught of milk and an
arrow-root biscuit is the best and light
est. IL is rarely required except after
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 loug a little milk and
a biscuit ia the small hours of the
morling may be taken; or tumbler q
milk with teaspoonful of wine or
brandy in il may be taken on getting
out of bed 10 dress. With some this
enables them TO take fair breakfast