After the patient has had a normal temperature for ten or twelve days, if agreeable to the physician, add a little semi-solid food to the general feeding: a frothed egg, omelet souffle, cup custard, bonnyclabber with cream and nutmeg, banana gruel made from banana meal, served with cream, a scraped beef cake, a very tender broiled chop, a piece of broiled sweetbread, a piece of juicy steak, the yolk of a hard-boiled egg grated over milk toast, a poached egg, a coddled egg, rice gruel made by boiling rice carefully and pressing it through a sieve, diluted with milk or cream, broiled bird, free from fat and lightly seasoned, carefully-made soups and cream soups. These dishes should at first be used only once a day, and that at noontime.

Avoid all vegetable foods for at least six weeks, with the exception of now and then a carefully-baked potato and a little carefully-boiled rice. When desserts are added they must follow the noonday meal. Wine jelly, Irish moss jelly, floating island, cup custards, cocoa, a cup of racahout; now and then farina custard, are admissible. Avoid all flavoring extracts in desserts; use in their place a tea-spoonful of caramel or a tiny bit of the grated rind of orange or lemon, strained out.

Do not allow the patient to eat too much. Remember that after typhoid a person is very hungry and inconsistent as to what they want and the amount needed. No matter what the patient wants, give a small quantity of easily-digested foods.

If there is a rise in temperature after the first or second meal of solid foods, return again to liquid diet and continue it until the temperature falls to normal. At the end of a month, if the temperature is normal, the bowels regular, and there is no diarrhoea, the patient may select one or two favorite articles, for the noonday meal. This does not include such indigestible foods as lobsters, crabs or shrimps, or coarse vegetables, dried fruits, pies, puddings, or fried foods. Chopped meat cake, broiled sweetbreads, birds, venison, baked potato, young chicken, and light strained soups, are allowable.