Boiled plain wheat or corn bread
Fish, chicken, or two or three glasses of milk (Wheat bran, if milk is taken)
COLDS
Cause 1
A cold, in its last analysis, is merely a form of congestion throughout the capillary vessels of the body. It may have been caused by exposure—a draft of cold air blowing upon some exposed part of the body, in which case Nature closes the pores of the skin in self-defense. The poisons that are constantly being eliminated through the pores are thus prevented from escaping through these channels, and are picked up by the circulation, and carried to the lungs to be burned with oxygen. The lung capacity being too limited, or the amount of poison too great, Nature suppurates these poisons and throws them off in the form of mucus.
Cause 2
When a quantity of food, greater than the body can use, is taken and ingested into the circulation, the excess is carried to the lungs in the same manner as above described, and the same form of congestion and elimination takes place; therefore, colds caused by exposure and overeating are alike in every respect except their origin. The experience of the writer has been that congestion, which we term colds, is caused much more frequently from overeating than from exposure.
The logical remedy in either case is to limit the quantity of food to the minimum and to confine the diet, as nearly as possible, to readily soluble and readily digestible foods, such as nuts, fruit salads, and fresh watery vegetables, taking only sufficient nitrogenous and carbohydrate compounds to balance the daily bill of fare.