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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.