292 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Hager thinks that hay-fever is caused more probably by the dust or spores 

 of fungi, than by the pollen of phsenogamous plants. — Pharm. Centralhalle, 

 No. i8. 



COOKERY FOR INVALIDS. 



The following, from a recent English journal, contains some hints which 

 form a suggestive appendix to former articles that have appeared in our columns 

 on this important subject : — 



Give the distasteful food the semblance of something that is particularly pal- 

 atable to the patient, and your efforts will be rewarded by your soon beholding 

 him eating with an appetite. For instance, you are bound to give mince, and 

 equally bound not to give pastry." Your patient, however, is fond of pastry. 

 What you must then do is this: You must make a vol-au-vent case, and fill it 

 with minced chicken or lamb. Then, though your patient may not eat a single 

 mouthful of the crust, the look of the whole thing calls up the pleasurable feel- 

 ings associated with the vol-au-vent, in lieu of the feeling of disgust excited by a 

 dish of mince. On this day you will find that he enjoys his meal; on another oc- 

 casion you can surround the mince with a wall of mashed potatoes or boiled rice. 

 Again, you may send up your mince in the guise of a "cottager's pie." This, 

 as every one knows, is just a layer of minced meat placed at the bottom of a 

 small pie dish, covered with a three-inch layer of potatoes, put in the oven and 

 nicely browned. Yet, again, you may put the mince into rissoles, or roll it up 

 inside batter, or, failing all these, can make three-cornered sandwiches with it. 

 In this last case the mince should be of chicken, and, instead of buttering both 

 pieces of the bread, you might spread the faintest soupgon of potted ham on one 

 •of them. 



In catering for such an invalid as we have in view, our aim is to get him to 

 take a stipulated amount of meat per diem. The doctor has ordered him so 

 many ounces a day, to be given in any form (save the solid) in which he can be 

 induced to swallow it. As long, then, as this quantity gets taken, our object is 

 secured. We may give it, if we like, through the medium of soup, or through 

 that of meat jeUies. It is quite possible, therefore, to let two, or even three, days 

 in the week pass without mince in any one of its Protean shapes being present. 

 We can make chicken panada, and put as much as is equivalent to the specified 

 number of ounces into a plate of soup ; or, again, we can make some strong ox- 

 tail jelly, and administer a couple of glasses to him ; and then, when we have 

 given the due allowance of meat, we are able to include in that day's menu things 

 which are more appetizing, though less nourishing, than the mince. We can 

 give him a souffle flavored with vanilla, served in a smoking tin, with a snowy 

 white napkin around it. Charlotte russe, macaroni with sweet sauces, roast 

 apples (to be eaten with baked milky rice pudding), stewed pears covered vith 

 cream, and innumerable other puddings can be given with great benefit, since, 



