d, especially oats, groat soups with tapioca, or sago, and
potato soup.

Egg, raw, stirred, or sucked from the shell, or slightly warmed and
poured into a cup; all either with or without a little sugar or salt.

Biscuit and crackers, well masticated to be taken with milk, porridge,
etc.

As a rule fever is accompanied by an increased thirst, which may be
satisfied without hesitation. It is unnecessary, and detrimental, for
patients suffering from an increased excretion of water through the
fever heat, to be subjected to thirst. Since the mucous membrane of the
digestive channel is usually not very sensitive to weak chemical food
irritations, the cooling drinks, which contain fruit acids, such as
fruit juices and lemonades, are as a rule permissible. Fruit soups may
also be given.

It is different, of course, if an acute catarrh of the stomach or of the
bowels is combined with the fever. In such cases fruit acids must be
avoided. Still it is not necessary to resist the desire of the patient
to take whatever may be given him, at a low temperature. Even ice cream,
vanilla or fruit water ice, may be used in moderate quantity.

Warning against cold drinks is necessary only in case of disease of the
respiratory organs when the cold liquids would cause coughing.

The use of dietetic stimulants such as Dechmann's Tonogen, Eubiogen and
Plasmogen, is the same in these cases as has been mentioned in several
places previously.

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As soon as the patient has made sufficient progress, he may receive more
solid food.

The salivary digestion being improved, he may now be allowed several
more substantial dishes of rice and groat, cooked partly in milk, partly
in water and eaten with fruit juice. He may also have several kinds of
green vegetables, like spinach, cauliflower, asparagus, comfrey, etc.

With additional increase in his strength, fresh fish, well prepared, is
especially refreshing to a patient with light fever.

As to mental pabulum, in case of severe fever, I recommend for the
patient absolute mental and physical rest; little talking, no noise, no
visits, no disturbance of any kind. Within his system nature has to
accomplish an enormous task to facilitate which complete quiet is
essential. Just as he who has serious preoccupations needs quiet
environment, so that his attention may be devoted to his thoughts, so
also a patient in the throes of fever must relax all external
c