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few days, found immense benefit from it. It may better elucidate the dietary plan if I describe generally what I have sanction to take, aJid that man must be an extraordinary person who would desire a better table:—

For breakfast, I take four or five ounces of

beef, mutton, kidneys, broiled fish, bacon, or cold meat of any kind except pork; a large cup of tea (without milk or sugar), a little biscuit, or one ounce of

dry toast.
For dinner, Five or six ounces of any fish

except salmon, any meat except pork, any vegetable except potato, one ounce of dry toast, fruit out of a pudding, any kind of poultry or game, and two or three glasses of good claret, sherry, or Madeira — Champagne, Port and Beer

forbidden.
For tea, Two or three ounces of fruit, a rusk

or two, and a cup of tea without milk or

sugar.
For supper, Three or four ounces of meat or

fish, similar to dinner, with a glass or

two of claret.