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.
um, yeah.... that will just make you go more and bigger loads each time.
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