The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . ained upon thestomach, when everything else would be rejected, or, if retained, passthrough the alimentary canal undigested; and I have frequently witnessedexcellent results from a similar diet in convalescence from fevers and otherexhausting diseases. CHAPTER IV. Articles of Vegetable Diet The varieties of food procured from the vegetable Kingdom, are muchmore numerous than those had from the animal, among the most importantof which are, the Cereal grains,
The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . ained upon thestomach, when everything else would be rejected, or, if retained, passthrough the alimentary canal undigested; and I have frequently witnessedexcellent results from a similar diet in convalescence from fevers and otherexhausting diseases. CHAPTER IV. Articles of Vegetable Diet The varieties of food procured from the vegetable Kingdom, are muchmore numerous than those had from the animal, among the most importantof which are, the Cereal grains, as wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, rice, &c,and the nourishing power of which depends principally upon the gluten,starch, and gum, which form part of their composition. Vegetable gluten,or vegetable fibrin, is found in all farinaceous grains, as well as in severalparts of many plants. Wheat contains much more of it than the otherfarinaceous bodies, owing to which, wheat flour forms a superior article toany other for the preparation of bread. Associated with starch, gluten isexceedingly 50 AMERICAN FAMILY Fig. 5. Starch is likewise a proximate principle of various vegetables, especially wheat, rye, corn,barley, oats, rice, peas, beans, chestnuts,acorns, potatoes, &c, Wheat yields one ofof its purest varieties. It is very nutritious,although rarely used alone as food, except inthe form of arrow-root boiled in water, andgiven to the sick. It also forms an excel-lent demulcent in various affections of thebowels, and is stated to be an antidote to theeffects of an overdose of iodine. Gum which is obtained from the peach,Microscopic view of Starch. plum, cherry, and several other fruit trees,is also nutritious. The gum arabic of the shops, which is obtained fromthe Egyptian thorn-tree, has afforded nourishment and strength to largecaravans travelling over the deserts. It is seldom used as diet, except insome cases of sickness, being principally employed in so
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