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Show Diet For the Sick. There are few patients who cannot be given ice cream. People who are ill ' crave such things, and very often their ', cravings are a proper guide. I know a case where ice cream saved a patient's life. Ice cream' can be taken before anything else to a patient in a hospital. Rice may be given, but never unless it is cooked properly. Never give anyone who is sick anything fried. Never fry a beefsteak. Fried potatoes, it is per- ' haps needless to- say, should never be 1 ' given to a sack person. Very often an ' invalid desires things that seem absurd, ' but they only seem absurd because we 1 cannot put ourselves in the place of a ' patient. We have our ideas of how ' they should feel, and not their ideas of how they do feel. Sometimes their desires de-sires may be just what the system needs. Above all things, serve - the food daintily and prettily to a patient. His appetite is greatly influenced by the appearance and the manner in which the food is served, and nothing can be too- good for our sick. |