On Expeditions where nothing but salted Meat can be had, a Quantity of portable Soop should always be carried out for the Use of the Sick; which with Water and some Barley, and fresh Vegetables, when they can be got, will make a good Soop or Broth. On such Occasions, the Dinner ought to consist of Soop and Bread, or of light Puddings made of Flour or of Rice, of boiled Rice or Barley, or of Panado, &c.
Nurses and recovered Men may be allowed salted Meat twice or thrice a Week.
The common Drink of Military Hospitals ought to be Rice and Barley Water, with a small Proportion of Spirits and Sugar. Small Beer is a good Drink where it can be easily procured; as is Wine and Water, or a very small Negus, or very weak Punch in warm Climates.
Besides this Diet, extraordinary Indulgences may be occasionally allowed to particular Patients, as Wine, Brandy, Sugar, Milk. And the Physicians and Surgeons ought to have a discretionary Power to order a Vegetable or any other proper Diet for Patients in the Scurvy, or any other particular Complaints.
The Established Diet of a Military Hospital may be,
| Breakfast. | Dinner. | Supper. | |
| Full Diet, | One Pint of Water or Rice Gruel. Water Gruel made with 3 or 4 Ounces of Oatmeal, alittle common Salt, and with or without a little Sweet Oil, and two Spoonfuls of Wine. Rice Gruel made with two Ounces of Rice, one Spoonful of fine Flour, a littlecommon Salt and Sugar. | One Pound of boiled fresh Meat. | As Breakfast. |
| Middle Diet, | Ditto. | One Pint of Broth, half Pound of boiled Meat. | Ditto. |
| Low Diet, | Ditto, or according to the Patient’s Appetite. | One Pint of Broth, or half a Pint of Panado, with two Spoonfulls of Wine,and a Quarter of an Ounce of Sugar. | Ditto. |
The daily Allowance of Bread to be one Pound to each Man.
The common Drink for those on full and middle Diet to be Rice or Barley Water, with two Spoonfuls of Brandy to each Pint, and a Quarter of an Ounce of Lump Sugar; small Beer, or very weak Punch; or Wine and Water, two Ounces of Wine to a Pint of Water, and a Quarter of an Ounce of Sugar. The Quantity not to exceed three Pints per Day.
Those on low Diet to have Rice or Barley Water as above, with or without Wine or Brandy.
The Diet Boards hung up in the Hospitals may be made with the following Columns, nearly as they were with us in Germany.