In order that this blessed result may be obtained by these sufferers, Dr. Haig lays down the following regime to be adhered to:-

Animal Food

Milk, 1 to 1 1/2 pints, previously boiled. Eggs, fish, fowl, or game, 1 to 4 oz., varied a little from day to day.

Vegetable Food

Vegetable prepared products, vegetables twice a day, fruit three times a day, to any desired extent, according to appetite.

Tea, coffee, cocoa in moderation, and as flavourings rather than as strong decoctions.

The daily dietary may be as follows: -

Breakfast

A large soup plate half full of porridge eaten with milk; a few mouthfuls of fish or egg prepared in various ways; one or two rounds of bread, or its equivalent in toast, with plenty of butter; a cup of milk, flavoured with tea, coffee, or cocoa, previously boiled. Finish with a small quantity of any fruit that is in season.

Lunch

Potato and one other vegetable cooked in various ways and eaten with butter, fat. or various sauces; pudding, tart, or stewed fruit; biscuit and butter; a little fruit as at breakfast. For drink, a little milk, which in winter is often warmed, or water, often taken in summer, with a little fruit syrup, such as Stowers' lime juice cordial.

Afternoon Tea

Bread and butter and cake of various kinds. A little milk and water flavoured with tea.

Dinner

Soup made without meat stock; fish, of which only a very small piece is taken; two vegetables with sauces, butter or fat; any ordinary pudding, tart, or stewed fruit, though not as a rule very rich dishes containing many eggs; biscuit and butter; a good supply of various fruits for dessert. For drink, water with syrup, aerated waters, or a little milk, often taken warm in winter; a tumbler of water, aerated water, or in winter hot water at bed time.

Dr. Haig's Opinions On Vegetarian Diet

As Dr. Haig states, there is no starvation about this diet; but it has its inconveniences, owing to its running counter to the accepted habits and customs of the country. A mutton chop is always obtainable, while well-cooked vegetables can rarely be got anywhere. But health is worth purchasing at the price of inconvenience and trouble. With an earnestness born of conviction, Dr. Haig asks: "Do we not here in England die younger and in greater number than there is any necessity for? Are we not afflicted with an infinite number of diseases which cause far more pain and misery than is at all necessary? Are we not given to all kinds of debauchery and excess, and have we not huge asylums full of lunatics, and prisons full of criminals?" And he replies to his own queries: "I look upon all these things as serious and widespread diseases of the human race; and as I am not one of those who believe that Nature herself, if she had a free hand, would tend to destroy us, but rather to preserve what is good and eliminate what is evil; and, further, cannot believe that the tendency to these evils is part of the ground plan of Nature's work, or that the unalterable bias is to have headache, epilepsy, mental depression, mania, and their results - murder or suicide, alcoholism, morphinism, cocainism, etc., - and is originally implanted in our nerve centres, I am driven to the conclusion that not a few of these evils are the result of unnatural conditions, and that prominent among these is the unnatural diet, the evil action of which we are now in a position to follow out completely through our knowledge of the powerful effects of urates on the functions and nutrition of the whole body." This is a strong denunciation of the meat-eating habits of our race and country.