Wholesome fare : a sanitary cook-book, containing the laws of food and the practice of cookery, and embodying the best British and continental receipts ; with hints and useful suggestions for the sedentary, the sick, and the convalescent / by Dr. & Mrs. Delamere.

  • Delamere, Edmund S.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Wholesome fare : a sanitary cook-book, containing the laws of food and the practice of cookery, and embodying the best British and continental receipts ; with hints and useful suggestions for the sedentary, the sick, and the convalescent / by Dr. & Mrs. Delamere. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    indulge in habits of such excess that long continuance in them is impossible to mortal man. Of course, no invalid on the verge of delirium tremens, or within it, can suddenly renounce his stimulant and confine himself to Tisane without running a risk; but medical men can prescribe the amount of stimulant or sedative to be taken medicinally during a course of Tisane, as they can the administration of any other drug that may be specially required. Moreover, when once a man is fairly attacked by delirium tremens, the best thing he can do is—we mean, the best thing he could have done would have been—to avoid the causes of delirium tremens. Tisanes are easily prepared by travellers on land; for several of the plants affording them are almost cosmopo- lite. On board ship, a small packet of dried simples would supply the ordinary requirements of a crew, a scarcity of water being the only obstacle to be appre- hended. Be it remembered, too, that the herb-teas of our ancestresses, many of their still-room secrets, and the drinks given by Ladies Benevolent to their well-behaved poor, and by Beauties Bright to their wounded knights, were neither more nor less than true Tisanes. They have all this grand merit,—that, if they do no good, they can scarcely do harm. The temperature of this class of medicaments is not a matter of indifference. In general, they are taken warm, or hot; the rule is good in a great number of cases, but is far from applicable to every derangement of health. Inflammatory diseases, other than those of the respira- u u