Approximately 5106 calories

Key:
AProtein Gm.
BCarbohydrate Gm.
CFat Gm.
DTotal Calories
MaterialAmountABCD
Breakfast:
Stewed prunes6 prunes1.0235.26 145.0
Sugar1 tbs. 14.70 56.6
Oatmeal1 tbs. (dry) 3.2025.006.60 172.2
with cream and2 tbs. cream
sugar1 tbs. sugar
Poached egg1 egg5.35 4.16 58.8
Toast3 slices 7.9044.7013.00 328.0
Butter1 tbs.
Coffee1 cup
with cream and1 tbs. cream.40.402.80 53.9
sugar2 tsp. 9.45
Milk and cream⅔ cup milk 389.0
⅓ cup cream
11 A.M.
Cereal milk gruel8 oz. (1 cup) 248.0
with cream1 ounce
Lunch, 1 P.M.
Cream of pea soup8 oz. (1 cup)6.0017.657.66 185.9
Potato salad3.5 oz. (1 serving)1.7515.5015.33 210.0
Bread3 slices7.8044.701.04 328.0
Butter1 tbs..801.405.60
Cocoa made with milk1 cup 27.0027.6041.40 661.0
Sugar2 tsp.
Milk⅔ cup
Cream⅓ cup 329.0
3:30 P.M.
Cream, egg, vichy8 oz.4.9012.4036.00 393.0
Dinner:
Tomato bouillon1 cup 38.0
with whipped cream1 tbs..30.425.67 53.9
Beefsteak1 serving (3 oz.)18.60 17.34 230.5
Mashed potatoes⅓ cup1.167.503.50 66.5
Cauliflower1 serving1.532.99.42 21.8
Asparagus salad6 stalks2.003.72.24 111.8
with mayonnaise2 tsp..011.459.00
Bread2 slices5.2029.80.68 419.0
Butter2 tbs..28 24.09
Charlotte russe1 serving2.3011.1022.60 257.0
Milk⅔ cup 389.0
and cream⅓ cup
Black coffee if desired½ cup
At bed time:
Malted milk made with milk1 cup 8.4041.0010.20 288.5
and reënforced with lactose1 ounce

Methods of Increasing the Diet.—The above diet furnishes three times as much food as is needed to maintain the body living a sedentary life, or about as much as would be needed to maintain a lumberman at hard outdoor labor in the Maine woods. It would be impossible for an ordinary individual to handle such an abundant diet without making the increase in the diet gradually. This is best done by adding the milk and cream at the end of each meal and a glass of milk between meals and at bedtime, then gradually adding the fattening foods already mentioned until the diet approximates the diet sheet here computed.

SUMMARY

GOUT

Gout is a constitutional disease characterized by an inflammatory condition of the joints.

The Joints are the seat of chalky deposits of uric acid or sodium salts.

Metabolism in gout is disturbed, with a consequent retention instead of elimination of uric acid by the body.

The Blood contains an excess of uric acid which increases greatly during an acute attack.