| Show bananas in typhoid fever william C M D of st louls louis says that the best food for those suffering from typhoid fever is the banana in this disease he explains the lining liing membrane of the small intestines becomes intensely inflamed and engorged eventually it begins sloughing away in spots leaving well defined ulcers at these places the intestinal walls become dangerously thin A solid food it if taken into the stomach is is likely to produce perforation of the intestines and dire results will follow therefore solid foods or foods containing a large amount of innutritious subi substances stances as compared with autri cious substances are dangerous and aad are to be avoided the banana although it may be classed as a solid food containing as it does 95 per cent nutrition does not possess sufficient waste to irritate these sore spots nearly the whole amount taken into the stomach is absorbed and gives ees the patient more strength than can be obtained from other food chicago inter ocean |
