Sippy diet

Sippy diet
Sip·py diet 'sip-ē- n a bland diet for the treatment of peptic ulcer consisting mainly of measured amounts of milk and cream, farina, and egg taken at regular hourly intervals for a specified period of time
Sippy Bertram Welton (1866-1924)
American physician. Sippy was a professor of medicine at Rush Medical College in Chicago. In 1915 he published a description of his special diet for the treatment of peptic ulcer.

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a diet formerly widely used to treat peptic ulcers, consisting of milk, cream, and other supposedly bland foods; it was later proved ineffective.

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  • sippy diet — |sipē noun or sippy regimen Usage: usually capitalized S Etymology: after Bertram W. Sippy died 1924 American physician : a bland diet for the treatment of peptic ulcer consisting mainly of measured amounts of milk and cream, farina, and egg… …   Useful english dictionary

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