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Excerpt from Mrs. Rorer's Diet for the Sick: Dietetic Treating of Diseases of the Body, What to Eat and What to Avoid in Each Case, Menus and the Proper Selection and Preparation of Recipes, Together With a Physicians Ready Reference List This book has been written especially for the sick. The foods here recommended for special diseases are not suited to the well. A person in perfect health must simply repair the tissues of the body with proper foods, every twenty-four hours; but when ill, the first object is to regain health, with a special diet suited to the disease. Simple, easily digested foods recommended for the sick are not necessarily good for even children or invalids; in fact, foods for the well and foods for the sick are not interchangeable. My sole desire in writing this book has been to assist those persons who must care for their sick at home, and the doctor and the nurse, without trespassing on the domain of either. In disease each case requires special attention, and the knowledge that comes from observation- cannot be. supplanted by any dictated rules. Book directions are valueless unless modified by common sense. I have purposely avoided the caloric plan of feeding, as I find many physicians who object to this theoretical and mathematical method of feeding, especially in diseases of the stomach and intestines. As an assistance to my thirty years' experience in feeding the sick, I have read most of the recent works on diet, and have added any new ideas that have been well tried out. The lists of foods given for each disease may be depended upon for ordinary cases, but each case must be watched carefully and the food changed if it does not agree. The value of a thorough acquaintance with the facts and the requirements of each individual disease cannot be too highly estimated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.