First meal, 7 a.m. - A breakfast-cupful (fld. oz. 8) of new milk, with an additional tablespoonful (fld. oz. 1/2) of cream; 2 to 4 tablespoonfuls of thoroughly cooked oatmeal or cracked-wheat porridge, with cream and salt; two slices of whole wheat or bran bread buttered. One hour before breakfast the juice of a ripe orange, or half of a moderate sized ripe apple scraped with a spoon, or a small ripe pear, scraped, or a peach.

Second meal, 11 a.m. - A teacupful (fld. oz. 6) of milk, with an additional tablespoonful (fld. oz. 1/2) of cream; a slice of bran bread.

Third meal, 2 p.m. - A breakfast-cupful (fld. oz. 8) of mutton- or chicken-broth, or 1 or 2 tablespoonfuls of underdone roast mutton, or beef, or chicken minced fine and pounded to a paste; puree of spinach; mashed cauliflower-tops; asparagus-tops; stewed celery; whole wheat or bran bread, buttered; junket and cream; rice-and-milk pudding with stewed prune juice; baked apple with cream.

Fourth meal, 6.30 p.m. - Milk, one or two breakfast-cupfuls; whole wheat or bran bread, buttered; stewed fruit. For drink, pure water only. No condiment but salt. Avoid farinaceous foods, sugar, candy, cake and pastry. Massage of abdomen with warm olive oil, over and in the course of the colon, twice daily, is of much service.