Washington, D.C., April 10—Bottled carbonated beverages, which are classed as a food product by Federal and state food officials, have come to be part of the daily diet of patients in many hospitals throughout the country, according to a recent survey of hospital dietetics.
Foremost dieticians of the country are recommending pure, wholesome bottled soft drinks as a part of the diet of patients, for the aid of which the carbolic gas lends to digestion and the ease with which the inert sugar the food property of the soft drink, can be assimilated, practically instantaneously, by the patient’s system.
Dieticians at the Collis P. Huntington Hospital, Boston, Mass., which treats cancer cases, find that Ginger Ale and other beverages can be retained on the stomach of the patient longer than other articles of food. Investigations of the directions has proven that carbonated beverages will prove most advantageous to the patient if served about 11 a.m. daily.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore has been serving these bottled soft drinks to patients for some time. The Parker Hill hospital, Boston, which is used exclusively for the veterans of the World War, uses hundreds of cases of these beverages weekly.
Other Boston Hospital using soft drinks are the City, Massachusetts General, Hart, Bay State, Commonwealth, Seaboy, Peter Bent Brigham, Robert Brigham, Beth Israel, Leopold Morse, Forest Faulkner, Emerson, Lying-in, Boothby and Carpey. Purest and best in this section bottled by Roxboro Bottling Company.
From the front page of The Roxboro Courier, Wednesday, April 12, 1922. When an article on the front page of a newspaper was really an advertisment.
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