The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-03-12

is the hest IN most cases, especially in
stomach and bowel troubles.
Begin with pint, morning and eve
ming, taking the usual midday meal,
but emitting meat, potatoes and white
bread, and eating more whole wheat
bread and toast with only a little
cheese. The second week increase
the morning and evening ration to a
quart and the third week drop the
noon meal and substitute quart of
buttermilk. Drink very slowly, q
spoonful at time, holding 1t long In
the mouth, and stop when there is
feeling of complete fullness and salts
faction. Good skinned milk, promptly
bottled, converted into buttermilk,
with a spoonful of olive or peanut oil
to the quart, is best.
In disorders of the blood, grapes
are the best monodiet. Concord or
California grapes may be taken with
grape juice. The rules for buttermilk
apply. If the patient is taking only
gentle exercise, this diet may be con-
tinued for 80 days or longer, with per-
feet confidence.
In wasting diseases, perfectly fresh
whipped eggs with grape juice, and
olive or peanut oil, are good, as rule.
A lady much emaciated from severe
dyspepsia, impressed with the argu-
ments in favor of the monodiet, has
tried taking the yolk and white of the
egg at separate meals and proved the
theory correct to her great benefit.
Beans are a suitable monodiet for q
man of vigorous constitution who
must continue physical work. In a
go days test made by laborer under
my observation, working capacity and
weight steadily increased. But a per-
son of nervous temperament doing
light work, could not live well on
beans or peas, especially if the kid
neys were weak A case was recently
reported from Philadelphia in which a
man lived well for several years on
pea soup only, after his case had been
declared hopeless by physicians,
which does not prove that peas are
the best monodiet.
Peanuts (uncooked) with dry whole
wheat biscuit for bulk, give strength,
physical and mental, for an indefinite
period. With few apples taken in
the morning, and prunes in the eve
ming, this makes good varied mono
diet, for anyone doing ordinary work.
Rice is easily digested, but our
milled rice is chiefly starch, and alone
will not long support life. With
whipped eggs and grapes and OIL sep
arately, an emaciated person gains
fast If the powers of assimilation are
normal.
Rye bread is a good monodiet for
one doing hard work; couple of ap-
Piles in the morning will overcome the
tendency to clog the liver. A table
spoonful of olive or peanut oil should
be taken morning and evening.
More vitality is saved by eating one
article exclusively than one different
article at each of two or three meals.
The exclusive monodiet is better, that
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diet The diet should be changed as
conditions require, always gradually.
Wheat (winter wheat is best) con-
tains all food elements and, uncooked,
and chewed to a smooth, tasteless
paste, often gives better results than
anything else. The fat of the natural
food, ingwhich wheat is almost entire.
ly deficient, is supplied by olive or
peanut oil.
Uncooked apples, grapes, oranges,
pineapple, make good morning meal
for an invalid or infirm person, a
whipped egg with well toasted dry
bread for dinner, and rice alone in in
creasing quantity, as strength returns
(no milk, If the digestion be very
weak and buttermilk only or grape
juice only in the evening, for which
may be substituted prunes (alone) as
strength increases, thoroughly washed.
This dietary calls for little vitality,
yet contains every element of nutri-
ton, and can be relied upon to sustain