Lemonade and other mild acid drinks, water, pure or mixed with currant jelly, raspberry or strawberry syrup, and sometimes milk, or milk and water, cocoa, unspiced chocolate, arrow-root, farina, barley-water, rice-water. Beef and mutton-soup, mutton, beef, venison and most kinds of game, soft boiled eggs and fresh butter.

Occasionally fish such as trout, cod, haddock, and fresh scale fish, boiled, or if fried only the white part eaten. Also oysters, unless, as along some parts of the sea-shore they are impregnated with copper.

Among vegetables, potatoes, green peas, cauliflower, spinach, mild turnips, parsnips, carrots, rice, hominy, pearl-barley.

Fruits, such as peaches, raspberries, strawberries, oranges, stewed or roasted apples and pears, also prunes, grapes, etc. They should be perfectly ripe and fresh.

Bread, light and not newly baked, and biscuit free from soda or potash.

Puddings such as rice, arrow-root, sago, tapioca, macaroni, vermicelli, etc Salt and sugar should be used sparingly.