Bowel Complaints
- Tea and coffee, and toast without butter, arrow-root, crackers of any kind, and chicken broth, or anything else of that nature, will not be injurious; and enough of it should be taken to keep the strength and spirits as much unimpaired as possible, as no treatment is more dangerous than to have nothing to eat; but on no account should a patient be permitted to have access to fruit of any kind (with the exception, perhaps, of figs, which may be eaten freely), or to use meat, until recovered.