Part 25

MENUS FOR RHEUMATISM AND GOUT

SPRING MENU

RHEUMATISM--GOUT--LUMBAGO SCIATICA, ARTHRITIS

BREAKFAST

Choice of the following:

a Two or three bananas, baked; serve with cream or butter b A baked sweet potato Half a dozen steamed figs, with cream

LUNCHEON

Asparagus or peas A small portion of new potatoes--preferably baked

DINNER

Potato, steamed wheat, or bran gems A glass of milk; buttermilk preferred One fresh vegetable, such as carrots, turnips, parsnips, or onions Nuts or cream cheese

A generous quantity of pure water should be drunk immediately on rising, and from one to two glasses at each of these meals.

Mastication should be very thorough. At least two hours' vigorous exercise or useful labor should be performed each day, in the open air.

Omit all acids, such as grapefruit, oranges, pineapples, lemons, and rhubarb; also eggs and all flesh foods.

If the bowels are constipated, take a tablespoonful of wheat bran in half a glass of hot water immediately on rising, and half a cup of bran, cooked, at each meal; also, two or three tablespoonfuls in hot water just before retiring. Continue this until the bowels become normal, then reduce the quantity according to the severity of the case.

SUMMER MENU

RHEUMATISM--GOUT--LUMBAGO

SCIATICA, ARTHRITIS

BREAKFAST

Melon or peaches--very ripe Two or three large, very ripe bananas, peeled, and baked ten minutes; serve with cream or fresh butter A bran meal gem

LUNCHEON

A very small portion of green salad An ear or two of tender corn A pint of buttermilk

DINNER

A small portion of green salad Peas, beans, corn, or any fresh vegetable A very small portion of fish (Buttermilk or junket may be taken instead of fish, if preferred) A baked potato Melon or cantaloup

From two to three glasses of water should be drunk at each of these meals.

If the bowels are constipated, observe the instructions given for the Spring Menu.

Exercise, in all rheumatic conditions, is very important, and while the temperature of the summer weather aids in eliminating poisons from the body, vigorous exercise should be taken in order to give Nature all the help possible.

Rheumatism is merely a form of congestion throughout the capillary vessels of the body. The cure, therefore, is first to remove the causes by taking into the body only such foods as it will use, and use completely; secondly, to aid Nature in casting out all poisons, thereby establishing perfect elimination.

FALL MENU