/Fourth Day/: The same as the third, with the exception of the evening meal, which should consist of--
A baked sweet potato--butter Carrots or string beans, or Spanish onion
/Sixth Day/: The same as the second, repeating the diet as given for a week or ten days.
After the fourth day these meals may be slightly varied by choosing from the following, where vegetables are prescribed:
Beans Parsnips Beets Peas Carrots Squash Corn Turnips
The patient should retire at a reasonable hour, say 10 o'clock, and rise about 6 or 6.30; have breakfast between 7.30 and 8; luncheon between 12 and 1, and dinner not later than 6.30 or 7.
Masticate well every mouthful of food, whether it seems to need it or not. Even bananas need much mastication, not for the purpose of reduction, but for the purpose of insalivation. The same rule should apply to all cooked vegetables and soft foods.
Cantaloup, melon, or pears Farina, rice, or boiled wheat Steamed whole wheat or One tablespoonful of nuts rice--sugar and cream (choice) A tablespoonful of nuts Cream and figs (choice) A liberal portion of wheat Half a glass of sour milk bran
Spinach or boiled onion One vegetable--corn, carrots, Corn bread with sweet squash, or lima butter beans Two tablespoonfuls of nuts Two spoonfuls of nuts (choice) A potato One glass of sour milk
Choice of lima beans or corn Corn, spinach, or a lettuce Corn bread and sweet butter salad Lettuce and fresh tomato, Rye bread or a potato with dressing Whites of two eggs, whipped or poached
Plain ice-cream, gelatin, or junket may be eaten with either of the dinner menus.
Omit all laxative medicines. Use coarse clean wheat bran liberally, especially with the morning and the evening meal.
/First Day/: Immediately on rising, drink two glasses of water, and eat a small bunch of grapes, or two or three soaked prunes. Devote two or three minutes to exercises Nos. 3 and 5 (see Vol. V, pp. 1344 and 1345). The exercises should be taken before an open window, or in a well-ventilated room.
A cup of hot water Three or four egg whites and two yolks, whipped rapidly four or five minutes with a rotary egg beater. Whip into this a heaping teaspoonful of sugar and a teaspoonful of olive-oil, and whip again for two or three minutes Flaked wheat, eaten with thin cream--small portion A cup of hot water Wheat bran