This section is from the book "Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick", by Sarah Tyson Rorer. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick.
In this disease, the intestines need rest. Give stomach digested foods with a minimum of light starchy gruels; beef juice, albumin and water, dried albumin in broth, modified milk without milk sugar, German flour gruel, arrowroot gruel, weak tea, cocoa shells and cocoa nibs, with very little milk; blackberry cordial. Do not give whole milk. As the intestines begin to recover, add to the diet broiled white meat of chicken, broiled fish, soft-cooked eggs, broiled sweetbread. Give six ground almonds once a day, after a meat meal.
Modified milk, without milk sugar
Albuminized water
Gelatinized water
Tea
Vegetable gelatin with fruit juice
Soft-cooked eggs
Meal cake with six ground almonds
Meat broths, with dry albumin
Zwieback, Aleurona wafers, almond wafers
Koumys, occasionally
Strained gruels
Meat juice
An occasional bit of toast
Strained orange juice
Blackberry toast
Huckleberry jelly
Elderberry jelly
All vegetable foods
Coarse cereals
Fruits, except those mentioned
All acid foods, as pickles, etc.
Highly-seasoned meat soups
Coffee
Bread
All fats and fatty foods
Puddings
Pies
Cakes
Rich desserts
Sauces
Sea foods
 
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