Roast Beef is Good For You

I'm reading Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches. The introduction, written by the brilliant historian Alice Fahs, includes lots of delicious tidbits. Like this one:

"a typical 'special diet' prescribed for a private with chronic diarrhea:

Breakfast
Coffee, steak, eggs, bread, butter, milk-punch

Lunch
Roast beef, fish, radishes, boiled cabbage, bread, tea

Supper
Oyster soup, raw cabbage, cheese, bread, butter, coffee."

That'll work! Gotta love those Civil War doctors.