Prepared foods such as tapioca, macaroni, and vermicelli, require prolonged cooking.
Meats, scraped beef.
Eggs, soft boiled, raw or soft poached.
Bread of all kinds, stale, home-made.
Puddings, ices.
Beverages, all kinds unless otherwise ordered.
Forced Diet.—This includes the general diet with the addition of one quart of whole milk and four eggs. The milk may be given plain or as an eggnog at seven, ten, three, and eight o’clock. The eggs may be given raw or cooked soft in any form.
Milk Diet.—Twelve ounces of whole milk (375 c.c.) may be given every two hours; i. e., at six, eight, ten, twelve, two, four, five, and eight o’clock, or the patient may sip it at her pleasure.
The milk may be given raw, boiled, diluted with plain water, lime water, Vichy, seltzer, or Apollinaris to taste. The daily amount should include three quarts of whole milk. Koumiss, buttermilk and milk soups are sometimes allowed. Note the exact amount taken, and give reasons for failure. Watch the stools for undigested milk.
Liquid Diet.—Whole milk, buttermilk, koumiss, beef tea, or beef, chicken, mutton, oyster, or clam broth, in eight ounce portions, or two ounces of beef juice, every two hours. Lemonade, orangeade, ice cream, or fruit ices, at intervals and amounts as desired.