Specimen Dietaries 
accompanying 
DR. E. R. SCHREINER'S 
DIET LIST 
Copyright, 1898, by P. Blakiston, Son & Co. 
Philadelphia Specimen Dietaries. 
INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA. 
Usually Allowable.-Broths, purees, cream 
soups ; raw, panned or broiled oysters ; broiled 
steak or chops, roast beef (rare) or mutton, 
stewed sweetbread ; roasted or broiled chicken, 
squab, game ; rice, some fresh green vegetables 
(lettuce); stale, toasted or pulled wheaten bread, 
zwieback ; stewed fresh or dried fruits ; weak, 
unsweetened tea or coffee, cocoa, some mineral 
water or light wine. 
Occasionally Allowable.-Fresh fish (sole, 
whiting, blue-fish, white-fish, bass), without 
sauce ; broiled bacon ; soft-boiled or poached 
eggs, omelet; butter; fresh young peas or 
Lima beans, baked potatoes, raw tomatoes, 
boiled onions, seakale, stringbeans, asparagus, 
stewed celery, spinach ; macaroni, spaghetti ; 
puddings (not too sweet), junket, cup-custard, 
wine or lemon jelly ; some fresh fruits. 
Special Diets.-Milk in various forms, 
koumiss ; scraped beef, beef juice or extracts ; 
predigested milk, oysters or beef. 
Avoid.-Au excess of food and anything 
for which the patient has an idiosyncrasy ; 
thick, rich soups ; crabs, lobsters, shrimps, 
terrapin ; fat or tough meats ; cheeses ; starchy 
and raw vegetables (roots and tubers) ; fresh 
bread, hot cakes, coarse cereals ; pastry, ices, 
cakes, sugar and confectionery ; berries, nuts; 
strong alcoholic beverages ; condiments ; rich 
salads. 
2 Especially Indicated.-Foods having a 
bulky residue or special aperient properties : 
Corn, peas, beans, potatoes, salsify, tomatoes, 
boiled Spanish onions, rhubarb, spinach ; 
Graham or rye bread, gingerbread, oatmeal, 
cornmeal; molasses; grapes, pears, peaches, 
oranges, cherries, plums, stewed dried fruits 
(prunes), figs, raisins ; berries ; copious draughts 
of water ; cofi'ee, grape juice, a laxative or 
purgative mineral water (best before break- 
fast), beer, cider. 
Avoid.-Eggs, milk, fried food and rich 
dishes ; sweets, pastry, puddings, bananas, 
pickles ; tea, sour and red wines ; condiments. 
CONSTIPATION. 
Small quantities of bland, unirritating, un- 
fennentable foods are required. 
Acute.-Food may be withheld or restricted 
to barley-water, arrow-root gruel, etc. 
Chronic.-Broths, thickened with tapioca or 
sago ; raw, panned or broiled oysters ; broiled 
chops or steak, stewed sweetbread ; white meat 
of chicken ; soft-boiled or poached eggs ; rice, 
baked or mashed potatoes; stale, toasted or 
pulled white bread ; arrow root, tapioca or 
cornstarch, plain or in puddings ; macaroni ; 
custard, junket; some astringent wine, brandy. 
Special Diets.-Milk in some form, es- 
pecially boiled or predigested ; beef or clam 
juice ; scraped beef or oysters (may be pepton- 
ized). 
Avoid.-Thick soups ; indigestible meats ; 
vegetables ; coarse cereals ; sweets, fruits, ber- 
ries, nuts ; most beverages ; condiments, salads. 
DIARRHCEA. 
3 FEVERS. 
Diet may be restricted to milk (boiled, Pas- 
teurized or peptonized) ; with albumen, rice or 
barley water. 
Usually Allowable.-Broths, purees ; soft- 
boiled or poached eggs ; the finer cereals ; arti- 
cles in special list; cup-custard, junket, ices, 
jellies ; fruit juices ; weak tea, cotfee or cocoa, 
lemonade, soda-water, stimulants. 
Convalescence.-To the above may be grad- 
ually added: raw, predigested or panned 
oysters ; broiled chops or steak, rare roast beef; 
squab, chicken ; toasted or pulled bread, zwie- 
back, crackers ; milk-toast, panada, caudle ; 
broth with egg ; plain puddings, etc. 
Avoid.-All foods containing seeds or having 
large quantities of indigestible residue, such 
as the coarser meats and vegetables, corn, toma- 
toes, oatmeal, fresh fruits, berries, nuts. 
DEBILITY OF TUBERCULOSIS, etc. 
Give at frequent intervals as much concen- 
trated, nourishing and appetizing food as can 
be assimilated. Forced feeding may be em- 
ployed. 
Especially Indicated.-Fat meats (rare), 
bacon ; raw, soft boiled or poached eggs ; un- 
skimmed milk or cream diluted with carbon- 
ated water; butter; cereals (aided by malt 
extract or diastase) ; beef and clam juice, 
scraped beef, egg-nog, milk-punch, koumiss ; 
predigested foods ; cereal and suet puddings ; 
cocoa, chocolate, malt beverages or light wines. 
• Avoid.-Coarse and indigestible articles. 
4 ALBUMINURIA AND BRIGHT'S 
DISEASE. 
Usually Allowable.-Purees of barley, rice, 
onion, celery ; fish soups ; fresh white-fish ; 
oysters and clams ; white meat of chicken, 
pork, bacon, or ham, once daily; butter, most 
vegetables ; bread, cereals ; puddings, jellies ; 
fruits and berries ; weak tea, some diuretic 
mineral water, some light wine; plain salads. 
Special Diets. - Diluted whole milk, 
skimmed or buttermilk ; milk toast; gruels ; 
koumiss ; rice and milk. 
Avoid.-Any diet which renders the general 
condition of the patient worse ; especially soups, 
broths, meat extracts, meats (except as above) ; 
eggs ; cheeses ; potatoes, peas, beaus, lentils ; 
pastry, sweetmeats ; malt or spirituous bever- 
ages ; condiments. 
LITH/EMIA, GOUT AND ALLIED 
CONDITIONS. 
Allowable (in moderate quantities).- 
Broths, purees, and vegetable soups ; fresh fish ; 
meats (strictly limited), beef, mutton, sweet- 
bread, bacon, tripe, white meat of chicken, 
game ; skimmed milk, buttermilk ; eggs (very 
few) ; butter; young peas, baked potatoes, 
green vegetables (except as below); stale, toasted 
or pulled bread ; cereals; plain puddings ; 
fresh fruits (?), melons (?), stewed or baked 
apples, stewed pears ; tea and coffee (without 
sugar and cream), lemonade, mineral (especi- 
ally lithia) waters. 
Avoid.-Salted fish ; shell fish and Crustacea; 
preserved meats (except bacon) ; veal, pork, 
5 duck, goose; cheeses; starchy vegetables in 
excess, especially peas, beans, lentils, beets, 
radishes, tomatoes, asparagus, rhubarb, spin- 
ach (?), sorrel (?) ; pastry and sweetmeats ; 
fruits and berries generally; alcoholic beverages, 
especially malt and spirituous liquors, Port, 
Madeira, Sherry, Burgundy, cider ; condiments; 
rich salads. 
Cantani allows the moderate use of broths, 
fish, fresh eggs, green vegetables, with large 
quantities of water. He forbids all fatty, 
starchy and saccharine foods, milk, cheeses, all 
acid foods, condiments, coffee and alcoholic 
beverages. 
DIABETES. 
The diet must be regulated according to the 
nature and severity of the condition. 
Unconditionally Allowable.-Clear soups 
and broths (with or without eggs); fresh fish 
(without flour sauces), salted fish, sardines in 
oil; shell fish (?), Crustacea, terrapin ; meats 
(except as below); poultry, game ; eggs ; butter ; 
cheeses ; fresh green vegetables (some limited); 
pickles ; tea, coflee, lemonade (sweetened with 
saccharine); light Moselle or Rhine wines, 
claret or Burgundy; condiments ; salads with 
plain dressing. 
Permissible in Moderate Quantities.- 
Salmon, lobster, anchovies; corned beef, ham, 
tongue, calf's liver, sausages ; cream ; salsify, 
turnips, celery or pumpkins (of any one two 
tablespoonfuls); green peas, beans, carrots or 
Brussels sprouts (1 tablespoonful); artichokes 
(1J), radishes (8), tomatoes (2),. melon (1 
slice); apples (1), peaches (1), raspberries or 
strawberries (1 spoonful); cocoanut (1 slice), 
6 walnuts (2), hazel nuts (6), almonds (3), Brazil 
nuts (8), olives, truffles (1), mushrooms, fish 
sauces, pate-de-ibie-gras. 
Conditionally Allowable.-(Any one in 
place of 2 ozs. of bread.) Milk, koumiss or 
cream (1 quart) ; rice (1$ ozs.), peas, beaus or 
lentils (dry 2 ozs.); green peas (4 ozs.); pota- 
toes (6j ozs.); rye or Graham bread (2| ozs.); 
zwieback (Ij ozs.); aleuronat bread (4 ozs.), 
oatmeal or macaroni (1^ ozs.); fruit jelly 
(2 ozs.); cane sugar or honey (If ozs.); grapes, 
apples, pears, plums, apricots, cherries, etc. 
(of any one 4f ozs.); peaches (3); raisins, 
dates or figs (If ozs.); bananas (3); berries 
(8 ozs.); chestnuts (2i ozs. unshelled); walnuts, 
hazel nuts, almonds or Brazil nuts (a handful, 
unshelled); cocoa or chocolate (lj ozs.); beer 
(1J pts.) or sweet wine (a wineglassful).- Von 
Noor den. 
Special Diets.-Skimmed milk, butter- 
milk or koumiss. 
Avoid (except as above).-Shell fish (?), 
liver, milk (?), starchy vegetables, bread, 
cereals, pastry, puddings, ices, cakes, jellies, 
cane- and grape-sugar, honey, molasses, con- 
fectionery ; fruits ; berries; chestnuts, pea- 
nuts ; malt or spirituous liquors aud sweet 
wines. 
The total amount of food to be reduced ; 
sugars and starches restricted or prohibited ; the 
amount of fluid limited, especially at meals. 
Allowable.-Clear soup (4 ozs. for dinner); 
broiled fish ; meat, poultry or game (not more 
than 6 ozs. twice daily); two soft-boiled or 
OBESITY. 
7 poached eggs ; green vegetables ; well toasted 
bread ; fresh fruits and berries ; some alkaline 
mineral water ; a little Rhine wine, still 
Moselle or claret (fluids preferably between 
meals).-Feo. 
Avoid.-Thick soups, eels, salmon, mack- 
erel ; milk ; starchy vegetables; fresh bread ; 
cereals; pastry, puddings and sweetmeats; 
beer, porter, sweet wines and spirits. 
Banting System.-Total quantity of food 
reduced to 21 to 27 ozs. per day, one-half 
meat ; bread 2 ozs.; green vegetables and 
fruit ; fluids 35 ozs. (severe). 
Ebstein System.-Allows abundance of 
fats (fat meat, cream, butter); peas, beans, 
asparagus, spinach and cabbage ; bread 3J ozs.; 
fluids restricted. 
Oertel System.-Less fats, more proteid 
and carbohydrate food than the above, com- 
bined with graduated exercise. 
Schweninger System.-Essentially the 
same as the Oertel system, but fluids are for- 
bidden until two hours after meals. 
Salisbury System.-Diet of rare meat and 
hot water. 
Weir Mitchell System.-Diet principally 
of skimmed milk, with restand massage, for a 
limited time. 
***This accompanies each package of Dr. E. R. 
Schreiner's Diet Lists, published by P. Blakiston, 
Son & Co., Medical Publishers and Booksellers, 
1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 
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