7:30 a. m.--Cereal well cooked (over night) or at least for three hours, A
larger variety of food can now be given and given as before with thin
cream, salt, but little sugar. One glass of warm milk, a soft boiled,
coddled or poached egg; bread very stale or dry, one slice with butter.
10:00 a. m.--One cup of warm milk, with a cracker or a piece of stale
bread and butter.
2:00 p. m.--Soup, four ounces, or two ounces of beef juice. Meat: chop,
steak, roast beef, lamb or chicken; white potato, baked or boiled rice.
Green vegetables: Tips of asparagus, string beans, peas, spinach, all
cooked until they are very soft, mashed or preferably put through a sieve,
and only one to two teaspoonfuls at first. Desserts: Cooked fruit, baked
or stewed apple, stewed prunes, water, but no milk.
6:00 p. m.--Cereal: Farina, cream of wheat, or arrow-root, cooked for at
least one-half hour with plenty of salt, but no sugar; or milk toast; or
old bread and milk or stale or dry bread and butter and a glass of milk.