The philosophy of eating. By Albert J. Bellows, M.D.

276 DIET OF HOSPITALS.
Common diet. Middle diet,
1 pint of broth.
Supper...
Low diet. Milk diet.
Gruel or broth. 1 pint milk.
In St. Bartholomew's Hospital

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Common diet.
Milk porridge, 12 oz. bread,
6 oz. mutton or beef, 1
pint broth with peas or potatoes, four times a week;
2 pints beer for men, 1
pint for women; 1 oz butter thrice a week.
Thin, or fever diet.
Milk porridge, 12 oz. bread, M
1 pint milk, with tapioca,
arrow root, sago, or rice,
as may be prescribed; barley water.
In Guy's Hospital

Broth diet.
Milk porridge, 12
oz. bread, 2 pints
broth, 1 pint beer,
1 oz. butter.
Milk diet.
Cilk porridge, 12 oz.
bread, 2 pints milk,
with tapioca, arrow root, sago, or
rice; barley water;
1 oz. butter; bread
pudding 3 times a
week when ordered.

They have
r Full diet. Middle diet.
14 oz.bread, bread, 12 oz. bread,
1 oz. but- 1~ oz. butter, 1 qt. ter, 1 pint
table beer, table beer,
8 oz. meat 4 oz. meat,
when it is and I pint
dressed. broth.
For each diet, gruel or barley
water, as required.

Low diet.
12 ounces
bread, 1
oz. butter, tea
and sugar.. lb. bee
root, or su

Milk diet.
12 ounces
bread, 1
oz. butter, 2
pints of
milk.

Fever diet.
6 ounces
bread, 1
oz. butter, tea
and sugar.

f for beef tea, or arrow
gar when ordered.