Half an hour before mid-day meal.—(From 1 to 2 o’clock.) Sip one cup of Star Tonic.
For Mid-day Meal.—Make it a strict rule to take regularly green vegetables of some kind, such as spinach, cabbage, lettuce, etc. A fair amount of these should be taken daily. To these may be added a few potatoes, very little meat or fish, and now and then, in the place of the latter, some pulses, such as lentils (German are best)....
At Tea Time.—If absolutely necessary, take a cup of weak ordinary tea or health coffee; better still, take a cup of Star Tonic, some cold toast....
For Supper.—(Let this meal be not later than two-and-a-half, or, better still, three hours before going to bed.) Take either Cocoa or Kefyr....
Before going to bed.—Always make a point of taking one glass of Kefyr or cup of Star Tonic.
When in bed always have some cold “Star Tonic” near at hand, and sip some when troubled with cough or acute symptoms.
At the bottom of the diet table is a notice to the following effect:
“The above specially recommended articles can be had from the Sales’ Department of the Weidhaas Hygienic Institute, Ltd.”
In the circular, referred to above as enclosed, Kefyr ferment is offered for sale.
In one case which was enquired into of a young man who had been induced to obtain the treatment, his mother wrote to the institute complaining that the treatment appeared to have done her son more harm than good. The reply, after insisting that the remedy supplied was the very best cure for his complaint, continued: “As to it lowering his vitality, let me say that it is not unusual for patients to feel apparently worse in the beginning, but it only shows that the treatment is disturbing the cause of the trouble. Now, this is just what I want it to do. I want to disturb it and thus drive it out of the system. I hope then you will allow your son to proceed under my directions. Give the treatment a fair trial and it will do all that is claimed for it.” The patient was at the time in an advanced stage of pulmonary phthisis, and died of hæmoptysis, of which he had had two previous attacks, seven weeks after the letter quoted above was written. A month after his death a letter was addressed to him by the director of the institute in the course of which it was stated that: “Many patients do not gain immediate relief, or even partial improvement during the early stages of the treatment, but Perseverance and a faithful adherence to all my instructions will invariably bring about the desired result.”