Excerpt from How to Cook for the Sick and Convalescent: Arranged for the Physician, and Trained Nurse, and Home Use The careful preparation of food is now recognized to be of vital importance to an invalid and a valuable assistance, in many cases, to the physician in hasten ing the recovery of a patient. If, in addition, the foods be classified with reference to their composition, it enables the physician to select only those best adapted for any special requirement. The author has been frequently asked to bring these recipes together in book form, which has now been done, with the earnest hope that they may prove of assistance to the trained nurse or caretaker of the sick, which will be commensurate with the labor involved in the preparation of this little volume. They have been arranged in such a way that the physician, in outlining a course of diet, may find them most useful and a source of ready reference, and that whatever food is ordered can be properly cooked. Not only has the author carefully tried all the reci pes here given, but they have been successfully used in six hospitals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.