C. Hering's Domestic physician : revised, with additions from the author's manuscript of the seventh German edition ; containing also a tabular index of the medicines and the diseases in which they are used.

  • Hering, Constantine, 1800-1880.
Date:
1851, ©1850
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Credit: C. Hering's Domestic physician : revised, with additions from the author's manuscript of the seventh German edition ; containing also a tabular index of the medicines and the diseases in which they are used. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    All kinds of light and not too fresh bread, and plain biscuit con- taining no potash, soda, alum or other similar ingredients; cakes made of meal, eggs, sugar, and a little butter; buckwheat and other cakes not raised with fermenting powders; light puddings and dumplings of wheat, farina, wheat grits, rye, Indian meal, rice, oat- meal or bread, without wines, spices, or rich sauces, hominy, farina, Indian mush, rice, rye mush, groats and pearl barley boiled with water, milk or soup. About using hot com consult the physician. Potatoes, turnips, carrots, beets, salsify, artichokes, spinach, cab- bage, cauliflower, green peas or beans; and in some cases also, tomatoes, egg-plant, asparagus, squashes, cucumbers, mushrooms, dryed peas, beans, especially lima-beans, lentils, millet, green rye, &c. Milk, raw or boiled, fresh buttermilk, whey, milk posset; but care should be taken not to use milk from cows poisoned with slops from distilleries. Ice-creams with the syrup of strawberries and that of other al- lowed fruits, and not flavoured with aromatics nor coloured with cochineal or other injurious drugs. Pure plain chocolate or cocoa, and in some cases weak black tea. Butter, free from any rancid or unusual taste, cream, cottage cheese, milk cheese, curds, and other simple preparations of milk, plain custards, pure sweet olive oil. Raw or boiled eggs and egg-tea, except in diarrhoea. Soups and broths of animal and vegetable substances elsewhere allowed, seasoned with a little salt only; beef tea, mutton broth, and chicken water after having been boiled for at least half an hour. Beef, mutton, all kinds of tongues, venison and wild game, the lean part of ham, pigeons, chickens and turkeys; the latter only in the winter season and not in all cases. Fresh perch, rock, sea-bass, and small creek fish; salt shad, mackerel and salmon after being well soaked or par-boiled. Oysters, raw, roasted in the shell, or boiled in soup. Salt, and also sugar or molasses, may be used, but always with great moderation. Should any of the allowed articles of diet disagree with the pa- tient, on account of some constitutional peculiarity, or the nature of the disease, they should be avoided by him, though perfectly wholesome for others.