- Don't Ecly Too Mncli .TTpon Beef Tea. One of the hardest notions for tUe untrained nurso to givo up is th^it beef tea is^ a valuable nutriment. The reusnt assertion' of a writer in The American Lancet, that thousandsof sick persona have boen starved to death en beef ten, 13 only h summing up of what physicianßund expert.nurses have been trying to impress upon the minds oi the laity Xor some time. " Beef tea is a stimulant, slight nnd evanescent, but to "livo on beef tca,"whiob bos been,-fcba, shibboleth of many a sickroom, ia impossible. And The Lancet fur thercpunselsthat.if it must'slill be made and used to perform its very limited service, to re/ncmbei- that, like plain "tea.'ii should never bo boiled. -That methodpf. making contributes a positive vice—that of indi= ■gestibility. ' .■ .
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 18 December 1899, Page 1
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