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Manual of homœopathic medicine. In two parts. Part I. Materia medica. Part II. Therapeutical and symptomatological repertory ... / By G.H.G. Jahr. Translated from the fourth edition, and edited, with additions, by P.F. Curie.

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Manual of homœopathic medicine. In two parts. Part I. Materia medica. Part II. Therapeutical and symptomatological repertory ... / By G.H.G. Jahr. Translated from the fourth edition, and edited, with additions, by P.F. Curie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following dietetic table is recommended as one which has stood the test of many years’ experience. ALIMENTS ALLOWED. Soup or Broth made from the lean of Beef, Veal, or Mutton ; to which may be added well-boiled Sago, Tapioca, Potato-Flour, Vermicelli, Rice, Se- molina, or Maccaroni. Meats.—Beef, Mutton, Lamb (when not too fat or too young), Veal (when not too young), Poultry, Pigeons, Larks, Rabbits, Pheasant, plainly cooked, and roasted, broiled or stewed, in preference to boiled. Fish.—Soles, Whiting, Smelts, Trout, Flounder, and all kinds of light fish. Vegetables.—Potatoes, Green Peas, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Spinach, Tur- nips, Carrots, French Beans, Aspara- gus, Artichokes, well cooked. Puddings.—Bread, Semolina, Tapioca, Arrow-root, and Potato-Flour, Rice, light Apple Puddings, not acid. Eggs, lightly dressed. Fruit.—Baked, stewed, or preserved Apples, Pears, Cherries, Strawber- ries, Plums, or any other not of an acid quality ; also fruit which is per- fectly ripe and sweet. Beverage.—Water, Milk, Cocoa, ! Chocolate, Arrow-root, Gruel, Toast- water, Gum-water, Barley-water, Milk and Water, Sugar and Water. Salt should be used in moderation. ALIMENTS FORBIDDEN. Soups.—Turtle, Mock-Turtle, Ox Tail, Giblet, Mullagatawny, and all rich and seasoned Soups. Meats.—Pork, Bacon, Ham, Calf’s Head, Veal (when too young, or when found to disagree), Lamb (when not too fat or too young), Turkey, Duck, Goose, Venison, Game (except in spe- cial cases), Sausages, Kidney, Liver, Tripe, and every kind of Fat and Salted Meats. Fish.—Crab, Lobster, Oysters, and all Shell-fish, and all other fish not spe- cified in the opposite column. Vegetables. — Cucumber, Celery, Onions, Radishes, Parsley, Horse- radish, Leeks, Thyme, Garlic, and every description of Pickles, Salads, and Raw Vegetables. Pastry of all kinds, whether Baked, Boiled, or Fried ; Pancakes, York- shire Puddings, Fritters, &c., Butter and Cheese, Mustard, Vinegar, Pep- pers, Spices of all kinds, and Aro- matics. Beverage.—Tea, Coffee, Wine, Spi- rits, Porter, Ale, Ginger-beer, Soda- water, and all Stimulatiug and Acid Drinks. Persons subject to congestion of the head, with flushed face, to bleeding of the nose, and of an inflammatory habit, should live chiefly upon a vegetable or milk diet, ripe and cooked fruit, &c. They should take very little meat, giving the preference to fish and white meat, such as pheasant, poultry, &c. Those of a bilious constitution, with sallow complexion, dark hair, dry fibre, and who are liable to gastric or bilious affection, should se- lect for food, roast beef and mutton, pheasant, chicken, and vegetables well cooked, or prepared with the gravy of meat; and should avoid stewed and fat meat, and all kinds of food containing fat, as pastry, &c., and take very little farinaceous food. Nervous persons, with slender limbs, who are very excitable, and disposed to cerebral diseases, should live especially upon beef, poul- try, fish, light puddings, and a small proportion of farinaceous food ; stewed, and perfectly ripe fruits. Persons of lymphatic constitution, with soft flabby flesh, light hair, rosy complexion, pallid and puffed face, and large lips, subject to dis- vol. i. b