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Chicken Broth

says the animal should fast, previously to killing
it. This a useless refinement. Chicken broth and
soups are not to be used in inflammatory diseases,
they are not less nutritious than beef tea.
Chicken broth is often improper in yellow fever and
even fatal in some cases. and in that ticklish state of the
system is one of the most dangerous things that
can be given to the sick.

Lecture 8^th At our last are said something
of cooking, and of the best way of making soup
for the sick. It is not necessary to enlarge on
it here, we shall only add that various spices
& wines are sometimes added to soup, they only
serve to render it more stimulating.
Calves foot jelly you ought to reprobate
as a dangerous article of diet for convalescents.
You know it is made up of spices &c &c and
is not just for the sick. Beef tea is much
better. The very bone of animals may be