Regulations for Army medical services / War Office.

Date:
1894
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Credit: Regulations for Army medical services / War Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX No. 2. (See paragraphs 296, 297.) INSTRUCTIONS TO MEDICAL OFFICERS WITH REGARD TO THE USE AND VALUE OF HOSPITAL DIETS. General Instructions. The following tables give the composition, nutritive value, &c, of the hospital diets in use in the Army, calculcated from the tables in Parkes' Manual of Practical Hygiene, 7th Edition, 1887, pp. 243—248. Nature, Composition, Quantity, and Nutritive Value of Diet Scales in use in the Military Hospitals of the British Army. Tea Diet. Constituent. Amount of each. Water. Albumi- nates. Fats. Carbo- flydrates Salts. Total, water free. Bread 12 oz. 4-800 0-960 0-180 5-904 0*156 7-U00 Tea*' \ ti Sugar 0-075 2-412 0-013 2:435 Milk 6 5*208 0-240 0*222 0-288 0-042 0-71)2 Gross Total ... 21 oz. 10-083 1-200 0-402 8-604 0-211 10-417 * Tea is not usually reckoned as nutritive; its most important constituent, thetne, being a stimulant more than a nutrient. There is a small quantity of casein, fat, and starch, but too small to be of material consequence. A large part of the soluble matter consists of tannin, a powerful astringent. In tea diet there are- Nitrogen grains. 83 (Carbon... 2,028 Oxidizable < Hydrogen 29 (Sulphur 30 Potential energy in foot-tons Albuminates 208 Fate 152 Carbo-hydrates ... 1,167 Total 1,527