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The Family Nurse, Or, Companion of the Frugal Housewife, Ed. by an Eminent Physician
The Family Nurse Or Companion of the Frugal Housewife Ed by an Eminent Physician Author:Lydia Maria Child General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: FOOD AND DRINK FOR INVALIDS. In almost all cases where the human frame is disordered, fasting, or very abstemious use of food, is the safer course. In cases of decided illness, the remark is strongly applicable. Dr. Dewees says, " In almost every disease, too much anxiety is expressed for the strength of the patient. It does not seem to be recollected that the patient and the disease are a unit; and when you attempt to strengthen the one, you run the risk of increasing the other ; especially if this be done with stimulating diet. Debility is not a disease -- remove the disease, and you will rarely have trouble with the debility." Fleshy, full-blooded people will do well to eat little or no animal food, especially in summer. Pickles and stimulating drinks are injurious. Porter and strong beer have a tendency to produce apoplexy in such constitutions. Those who have humours, should avoid acids, salt provisions, nuts, butter, and all stimulating drinks. An immoderate use of honey is bad for bilious people, and those troubled with eruptions of the skin. [Personsof a constipated] habitof body, should choose such articles of food as are gently laxative, viz. coarse bread [household bread] rye pudding, [honey], [fish occasionally] drinks mixed with West India molasses, [imperial],« less