Eggs, buttermilk, or cheese are preferable to fish or chicken, but the latter may be used to bring up the proteid balance, when the former articles cannot be procured.
[C] Some one of these vegetables should be made very hot with red pepper for the purpose of exciting stomach and intestinal peristalsis.
A glass of water should be drunk at each of these meals.
Second Day: The same as the first, increasing or decreasing the quantity of food according to normal hunger. Do not overeat.
Third Day: The same as the second.
No doubt the symptoms the first two or three days will be that of weakness and emptiness. This will pass away during the week. There is ample nourishment in the articles prescribed to sustain the body even under strenuous physical labor, but these combinations of food may not be well assimilated the first few days.
FOURTH DAY: