ABSTRACT
It was ordained by the master of the Hospital and by the General Chapter that each patient should have each day half a soft loaf and sufcient housebread, and the same wine as the convent. The doctors should observe closely the qualities of the sick and what illnesses they have, and should inspect their urine and give syrups and electuaries and other things which may be necessary for sick people and forbid contrary things and give them useful ones and the more ill and the more inrm are the patients they see, the more concerned yet they should be to restore their health. Foods for the sick should be thus: from Easter to Michaelmas they have the meat of chickens and other fowl, and meat of goats and lambs not yet one year old and meat of sheep one year old and more as often as the physician may instruct them to be provided. From Michaelmas to Lent, meat of chickens and the same as was said before, and pork from the male animal one year old according as the doctor shall prescribe. Sick people should never eat female esh from an animal with four feet, nor are the brothers who serve the sick ever to give them any. In Lent fresh sh is to be given to the sick three times a week, if the patient dare to eat it for his sickness, and this is to be done on the advice of the doctor. Broth and other cooked dishes of vegetables and barley our and other foods suitable for the sick are to be given to them on the advice of the doctor, and they are to be given to them well prepared on the days appointed. Eels and cheese and lentils and beans and cabbages and other foods which are contra-indicated for the sick, we prohibit them to be given to them.
