General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . fevers and inflammatory affections. It is generally termed water gruel, and may be made by boiling three ounces of oatmeal or groats in three pints of water down to a pint and a half; and straining. It is a favourite domestic article of diet in sick- fness. In Scotland and the north of England, oatmeal is stirred into boiling water, until it has the proper consistence on cooling ; when it bears the name of porridge, and is eaten with milk as an article of diet. When the husks, removed from the oats before the
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . fevers and inflammatory affections. It is generally termed water gruel, and may be made by boiling three ounces of oatmeal or groats in three pints of water down to a pint and a half; and straining. It is a favourite domestic article of diet in sick- fness. In Scotland and the north of England, oatmeal is stirred into boiling water, until it has the proper consistence on cooling ; when it bears the name of porridge, and is eaten with milk as an article of diet. When the husks, removed from the oats before they are ground, are infused in hot water, and allowed to become sourish, a mucilaginous liquid is obtained by expression, which, when concentrated, forms a firm jelly called sowins, also used as an article of diet. Gruel is a common drink after cathartics, to assist their operation*and it is an excipient for emollient and cathartic enemata In the United States, especially in the southern ana western portions,an excellent gruel is made from the farina of Zea mays, Indian or SEVUM. 391 23. AMYLUM.—STARCH.
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