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.
Milk; milk and barley water
Milk and rice water
Modified milk
Koumys; Zoolak
White of egg and water
Beef teas
Beef extract; beef essence
Carefully-strained broth
Fruit juices, strained
White of egg, served on orange juice
Beef tea and nutritive beef tea, solidified with vegetable gelatin
Chicken broth, strained, solidified with vegetable gelatin
Lemon and orange vegetable gelatin
Tamarind and lemon whey
If Vomiting Occurs
Add lime water to the milk Stop beef tea
Increase the fruit juices
If Diarrhoea Appears
Use ground rice gruel and milk, strained Toast water, strained, to allay thirst
Ground rice gruel and milk, peptonized
Convalescing
Milk toast
Beef juice on French bread
Yolk of hard boiled egg, grated over milk toast Baked mashed banana, with cream Broiled bird
Carefully-made cream soups Potato timbale Pumpkin timbale
Potato souffle; stuffed potato Broiled sweetbread Coddled or poached eggs Broiled chop Scraped beef cake Soup a la Reine Floating island; cup custard Cocoa; racahout Well-cooked farina and cream Golden nog; egg cordial
All solid foods, unless ordered by a physician
Coarse vegetables
Cereals with husk
Whole wheat and brown bread
Hot breads
Complicated soups and sauces
Raw fruits, unless ripe and soft Sweets Pickles
Sea foods, except white-fleshed fish
List of foods the same as for ordinary fever cases
Yolk of egg, shaken in a half pint of barley water, every two hours
Next Three Days
White of egg in a half pint of water, alternated every two hours with milk and lime water
Later ,
Milk, koumys, zoolak, matzoon, buttermilk, nut milks, and fruit juices, at alternate feedings
Later
Gruels Green peas Spinach Dandelions Cooked cauliflower Stewed cucumbers Summer squash Baked potato Boiled rice White-fleshed fish Chops Scraped meat cake
White meat of chicken
Eggs, softly cooked
Whole wheat bread
Brown bread
Pilot bread
Gluten gems
Well-cooked oatmeal, with milk
Farina
Barley
All coarse vegetables
Fatty foods
Sweets
Tea
Coffee
Chocolate
Fried foods
Hot breads
Preserves Pies Cakes Puddings
Mixtures of egg and milk, as desserts Tomatoes
Peptonized milk
Milk and barley water
Koumys
Matzoon
Zoolak
Junket
Junket with cream Frozen orange juice Frozen grape juice Fruit juices
Later
Milk toast
Well-cooked cereals, with milk
Baked potato
Boiled rice
Carefully-stewed macaroni "Ye perfect food" Meiggs' gruel Lentil flour soup
Orangeade, orange juice and lemonade throughout the disease
Meats, meat soups and meat extracts Sea foods White of egg Old peas, beans and lentils
Coarse vegetable foods
Sweets
Pickles
Rich soups and sauces
May Try
Albuminized water Lime water and milk Bicarbonate of soda and water
Bicarbonate of soda and milk
Whey in white of egg
All meat preparations in hot climates Sugar
Sweets of every kind All solid foods until the patient is on the road to recovery
 
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