With a moderate looseness of the bowels in an older child, solid food should be stopped, and boiled milk given diluted with gruel; the child should be kept perfectly quiet, as walking about always aggravates such a disturbance.
The total amount of solid food taken in the twenty-four hours should not exceed two and a half pounds, and not more than one-third of this quantity should consist of animal food.
Having myself seen some rather disastrous results from a too early return to solid food, I have been accustomed in my own practice to interdict its use until at least two weeks after the beginning of convalescence.
I have frequently observed these to labour under bad digestion, and debility in consequence; which I have ascribed to the too great stimulus of solid food undiluted, destroying in process of time the irritability of the stomach.
Mastication is more or less painful, and often impossible, so that the patient is reduced to the necessity of prolonging life by the use of fluid or semi-solid food.
The necessity for increasing the amount and strength of the formula with the age, growth, and development of the child by the addition of solid food as soon as the physician deems it advisable.
No solid food must be given until the acute symptoms have disappeared.
The return to solid food is made gradually as in other intestinal disorders, by giving the most digestible foods first.
Care should be taken in this matter, as death has often followed the taking of solid food, when otherwise recovery would have come.
Absolute rest in bed is necessary, and no solid food should be given to the patient until his temperature has been ten days at normal point.
If you were required to go without water or solid food for a number of days, which would you prefer to have, and why?
As soon as solid food is taken into the mouth, it undergoes mastication, or chewing.
When the system is deprived of its supply of solid food during a longer time than usual, nature gives warning by the sensation of hunger, to repair the losses that have taken place.
To take very little or no solid food, and particularly to abstain from meat, or flesh broth, eggs, and wine, or other strong liquors.
Solid food is most proper for the state of manhood, but it ought not to be too uniform.
Sudden changes from liquid to solid food should be avoided, as well as a multiplicity of different kinds; and all stimulating dishes and heating liquors, prepared for adults, should be carefully withheld from children.
Surprisingly small quantity of solid food necessary, when properly prepared, for all the purposes of nutrition.
As an introduction to the use of solid food, the consistency of liquid food is gradually increased, and therefore, after having habituated the child to flour and milk boiled, they next give it bread diluted in some convenient fluid.
I conceive it to be highly useful, from being the only method by which the stomach of children can be furnished with the saliva that is required for the digestion of solid food.
And Aristotle or Theophrastus speaks of a man named Philinus as never having taken any drink or solid food whatever, except milk alone, during the whole of his life.
I'm sure, said he, I cannot tell myself: For oft he drenches me like any doctor; But never gives me solid foodto eat.
Think not then, childlike, much of solid food, But stick to wine, the only real good.
The full diet of the hospitals of London furnish from 25 to 31 ounces of solid food, besides from one to five pints of beer daily.
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