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quantity of nutriment, & [Rence] the propriety of
prohibiting your patients from eating too much
of it when it constitutes their diet.
some cannot when in health digest unleavened
bread and get in a disease of the bowes cracken
are an excellent article of diet. Stale bread in much
more easy of digestion, This you must all remember
& never let your dyspeptic patients have fresh
bread. In all chronic cases bread must be well
baked. There is nothing perhaps more difficult
of digestion than doughet gentleman of my
acquaintance are of the trustees of this university
eat some doughw half baked bread; & was seized
with apoplexy. Half baked and even fresh bread
have produced it. A most valuable beverage
for the sick is made by an infusion of
toaster bread in water. It becomes very useful
after blows on the head & in all those cases
when a rigid diet is indispensable.