Logan Leader | 1880-10-08 | Page 4 | Food For the Sick

FOOD FOR THE SICK. Frequently we find sick people whose stomachs reject all kinds of nourishment until conditions follow that in many instances terminate fatally. In twenty instances in which we have heard the popular sick bed nourishment prescribed and rejected by an invalid's enfeebled stomach, we have never known the simple saucer of parched corn, pudding or gruel refused. The corn is roasted brown, precisely as we roast coffee, ground as fine as meal in a coffee mill, and made either into mush, gruel or thin cakes baked lightly brown, and given either warm or cold, clear or whatever dressing the stomach will receive or retain. Parched corn and meal boiled in skimmed milk, and fed frequently to children suffering from summer diarrhea, will almost always cure, as it will dysentery in adults, and, we believe, the cholera in its earliest stages.