ffect.
The following articles are very nourishing: yolks of eggs prepared in
any style, milk, cream, kefir, rich cheese, beef marrow on toast (cooked
in soup), all kinds of noodles and dumplings, puddings, cocoa and
chocolate, white bread, rich thick soups, gravy, potatoes and oats
prepared in various ways, sweet beer, malt beer, sweet wines and
puddings with preserved fruits, fruit juices, meat from well-fed animals
only. All meals must be served in small portions, so as not to create
distaste for food.
7 _A.M._--250 grams of fresh, boiled, unskimmed milk, or 1/4 quart cocoa
prepared with milk or Knorr's oat-cocoa, or 1/8 quart cream with tea
added, one roll, butter and honey.
9 _A.M._--1 cup bouillon, 20 grams hot or cold roast meat, 30 grams
Graham or gluten bread, 10 grams butter. Then 1/4 quart milk, butter and
Graham bread.
11 _A.M._--1/4 quart milk with the yolk of one egg.
1 _P.M._--100 grams soup (oat, barley, vegetable soup), green corn, sago
soup, 100 grams potatoes, 100 grams tender vegetables, such as spinach,
mashed peas, mashed carrots, mashed artichokes, asparagus tips strained,
20 grams easily digestable rice, 50 grams preserved fruit; or, no soup,
but, instead meat, vegetables, apple sauce, dishes made from milk or
flour, such as noodles, fruit, 1/8 quart cream.
4 _P.M._--Light tea or milk, with malt or cocoa added, two crackers, 1/2
quart milk.
6 _P.M._--20 grams meat (hot or cold roast meat), raw meat or 10 grams
Graham bread, 10 grams butter, milk chocolate, Graham bread, butter,
honey.
8 _P.M._--1 cup soup with 10 grams butter and one yolk, barley, oats,
etc., eggs or meat, vegetables, preserved fruits, Graham bread, butter,
mild cream cheese.
9.30 _P.M._--1/4 quart milk, with a spoonful of malt extract, 1/8 quart
cream.
As a special breakfast, for a thin patient, the following drink is
recommended: To a cup of unskimmed hot milk add one yolk and one
spoonful of pure bee-honey. This must be taken in the morning on an
empty stomach for several weeks.
_In case of Constipation._
If constipation is due to nervousness or sluggishness of the bowels, the
best means to overcome the trouble is mixed coarse food, using various
mineral waters, and little meat, but plenty of vegetables, especially
sauerkraut, cabbage, comfrey, cauliflower, pumpkin, tomatoes, cucumbers,
various salads and fruits, jellies. Among beverages sour milk,
buttermilk, kefir No. I and II, yoghurt, various ne
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