On rising, drink a glass or two of water, eat a spoonful of cherries or berries, and devote a few minutes to vigorous exercise.

Breakfast

Half a cup of wheat bran

One or two red bananas - very ripe; baked if preferred. Served with either a spoonful of nuts or nut butter

Raisins and cream

Luncheon

Two tablespoonfuls of wheat bran

Two eggs - preferably whipped

Lettuce, with young carrots and grated nuts

Boiled onions

A baked potato

Dinner

Wheat bran

Choice of the following vegetables, baked in casserole dish: peas, asparagus, or onions Spinach, with egg

A few spoonfuls of plain boiled wheat A baked potato

Drink two glasses of cool water at each of these meals.

Just before retiring, take a small portion of wheat bran, and spend at least ten minutes in vigorous exercise.

Summer Menu. Sour Stomach - Intestinal Gas Constipation

Drink copiously of cool water, and take a brisk walk or vigorous exercise and deep breathing before breakfast.

Breakfast

Cantaloup or peaches - no cream Half a cup of wheat bran, cooked Whipped egg - a dash of sugar A baked banana - very ripe One or two glasses of water

Luncheon

A green salad

An ear or two of tender corn, masticated very thoroughly Nuts

Wheat bran A glass or two of water

Dinner

A green salad

Choice of two fresh vegetables - peas, corn, beans, okra, eggplant

A potato

Cream cheese with nuts and raisins

A small portion of bran, cooked

Water

Cool water should be drunk freely at meals, and mastication should be thorough.

Fall Menu. Sour Stomach - Intestinal Gas Constipation

First Day: On rising, drink two glasses of water, and devote three or four minutes to Exercises 3 and 5. (See Vol. V, pp. 1344 and 1345.) Inflate the lungs every fourth or fifth movement to their extreme capacity.

Breakfast

Steamed or boiled whole wheat

A tablespoonful or two of coarse wheat bran (This may be cooked, and served the same as any ordinary cereal, and eaten with butter and salt)

One or two exceedingly ripe bananas (baked if preferred), eaten with cream and nut butter

One egg whipped very briskly, to which add a teaspoonful each of sugar and of lemon juice while whipping

Luncheon

Four glasses of milk, drinking half a glass every six or eight minutes

Dinner

Choice of two of the following vegetables: Carrots, parsnips, squash, beets, tender cabbage

A baked potato or whole wheat bread

A green salad or celery

One egg, whipped (The egg could be omitted, and the combination of foods would still be well balanced)

Wheat bran

Just before retiring, take a spoonful of wheat bran in half a glass of water. Exercise as prescribed for the morning.

Second Day: The same as the first, increasing the quantity of food, if hungry. The noon meal could consist of two eggs, prepared as prescribed, and one fresh vegetable, uncooked, such as carrots or turnips, eaten with a green salad and either nuts or olive-oil. A banana, with very thin cream, might also be taken.

Third Day: Practically the same as the second, varying the breakfast by omitting eggs, allowing it to consist of bananas, soaked prunes and cream; or, oatmeal in small quantity, with thin cream; or, if agreeable, let it consist of the same articles as prescribed for the first day.

Fourth Day. Breakfast

A cup of hot water

Bran meal gems, with butter

Bananas, with soaked prunes, and either nuts or nut butter (Bananas should be baked unless very ripe) luncheon .

Two egg whites and one yolk rolled with whipped cream into a very rare omelet A small, baked potato

Dinner

Anything in the way of a salad - celery, lettuce, cabbage

String beans, parsnips, pumpkin, squash, onions, or carrots

One egg whipped or cooked two minutes

A baked potato or baked beans

Just before retiring, take a heaping tablespoonful of wheat bran and the exercises which were prescribed for the first day.

Fifth Day: Same as the fourth.

Sixth Day: Same as the first, repeating the diet, day by day- for twelve or fifteen days.

Winter Menu. Sour Stomach - Intestinal Gas Constipation

Immediately on rising, take a cup of hot water, into which put two table-spoonfuls of wheat bran. Devote from three to five minutes to deep breathing exercises.

Breakfast

Half a cup of wheat bran cooked from twenty to thirty minutes; eat with cream and a very little 6alt

One or two very ripe bananas, with cream and nuts

Whole wheat, thoroughly cooked

Luncheon

Boiled onions, carrots, or squash - any one or two of these A bit of green salad or celery A baked white potato - eat skins and all A tablespoonful of wheat bran, either cooked or uncooked

Dinner

A bit of slaw or celery

Spinach, carrots, parsnips, beets, turnips, pumpkin, or squash - any one or two of these

Baked beans or baked sweet or white potatoes A small portion of fish or chicken (If this is not convenient, an egg, lightly cooked, may be eaten)

If something sweet is desired, a small portion of plain ice-cream or gelatin may be eaten once a week.

From one to two glasses of water should be drunk at each of these meals.

If it is cold, and something hot is desired, a cup of sassafras tea, made from the bark of the red sassafras root, may be taken at the morning and the evening meal. (See p. 681.)

Just before retiring, devote three or four minutes to deep breathing exercises.

At the beginning of the evening meal, or on retiring, two or three tablespoonfuls of bran may be taken in a little hot water. The quantity of bran may be reduced according to the condition of the bowels.