A handbook of invalid cooking

by Mary A. Boland

[1] A notable exception is the "Boston Cook Book."

[2] Although in some hospitals it is not practicable for a nurse to do much cooking for her patients, she has the control and distribution of the food which is prepared.

[3] Carbonic acid is composed of one part of carbon and two parts of oxygen. Its symbol is CO₂. One volume of hydrogen united with one volume of chlorin forms hydrochloric acid, HCl. Common salt, or sodium chlorid, is composed of one part sodium and one part chlorin. Symbol, NaCl.

[4] Oxygen is often called the supporter of combustion, but it is no more so than the carbon and hydrogen of fuels, since they are necessary for a fire.

[5] Hydrogen is 14.44 times lighter than air.

[6] See Eliot and Storer's "Chemistry," the revised edition, edited by Nichols, and the "Elementary Text-book of Chemistry," by Mixter.

[7] Mattieu Williams, in "Chemistry of Cookery."

[8] The carbonic acid breathed in has united with the lime, thus leaving the water without excess of it.

[9] As a general thing water does not contain organisms that form spores.

[10] Atwater.