the Hospital, should have Meat for
Dinner; and the Meat that is boiled for them ought to make Broth for
the Sick who are kept on a low or middle Diet. Some Barley or Rice
should be added to the Broth; and a small Quantity of Carrots,
Turnips, or other Vegetables, boiled along with them, will make it
more agreeable to the Taste.

On Expeditions where nothing but salted Meat can be had, a Quantity of
portable Soop should always be carried out for the Use of the Sick;
which with Water and some Barley, and fresh Vegetables, when they can
be got, will make a good Soop or Broth. On such Occasions, the Dinner
ought to consist of Soop and Bread, or of light Puddings made of Flour
or of Rice, of boiled Rice or Barley, or of Panado, &c.

Nurses and recovered Men may be allowed salted Meat twice or thrice a
Week.

The common Drink of Military Hospitals ought to be Rice and Barley
Water, with a small Proportion of Spirits and Sugar. Small Beer is a
good Drink where it can be easily procured; as is Wine and Water, or a
very small Negus, or very weak Punch in warm Climates.

Besides this Diet, extraordinary Indulgences may be occasionally
allowed to particular Patients, as Wine, Brandy, Sugar, Milk. And the
Physicians and Surgeons ought to have a discretionary Power to order a
Vegetable or any other proper Diet for Patients in the Scurvy, or any
other particular Complaints.

The Established Diet of a Military Hospital may be,

_Breakfast._ _Dinner._ _Supper._
One Pint of Water | |
or Rice Gruel. | |
| |
Water Gruel made | |
with 3 or 4 Ounces | |
of Oatmeal, a | |
little common Salt,|One Pound |
and with or without|of boiled fresh |
Full Diet, a little |Meat. | As Breakfast.
Sweet Oil, and | |
two Spoonfuls of | |
Wine. | |
| |
Rice Gruel made | |
with two Ounces of | |
Rice, one Spoonful | |
of fine Flour, a | |
little | |
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