Milk and milk foods are to be preferred, if they agree with the patient; if they do not, select such easily-digested foods as cream soups, with dry bread; sweetbreads, broiled, stewed, and creamed; now and then a piece of white meat of chicken, broiled or roasted; eggs, cooked in any light way, or raw with milk; light topground vegetables, carefully cooked and served without rich sauces; an occasional baked potato; boiled rice; unleavened bread, whole wheat bread, crisp corn bread; fruits, raw, and stewed without sugar; steamed figs and dates, all thoroughly masticated.

Avoid

All highly-seasoned foods

All rich meats and stimulating meat soups Tea Coffee Pork Veal Duck Goose

Beef

Pickles

Dishes containing sugar

Onions

Garlic

Chives

All coarse vegetables

Soft foods, as mushes

Cooked fats of every kind