30
Hash, meat, and vegetables |Warmed ---------- |2 30
Sausage, fresh ----------- |Broiled --------- |3 20
Gelatine ----------------- |Boiled ---------- |2 30
Cheese, old, strong ------ |Raw ------------- |3 30
Green corn and beans ----- |Boiled ---------- |3 45
Beans, pod --------------- | " ---------- |2 30
Parsnips ----------------- | " ---------- |2 30
Potatoes ----------------- |Roasted --------- |2 30
" ----------------- |Baked ----------- |2 30
" ----------------- |Boiled ---------- |2 30
Cabbage, head ------------ |Raw ------------- |2 30
" " with vinegar | " ------------- |2 00
" " ------------ |Boiled ---------- |4 30
Carrot, orange ----------- | " ---------- |3 13
Turnips, flat ------------ | " ---------- |3 30
Beets -------------------- | " ---------- |3 45
Bread, corn -------------- |Baked ----------- |3 15
" wheat, fresh ------ | " ----------- |3 30
Apples, sweet, mellow ---- |Raw ------------- |1 30
" sour ------------- | " ------------- |2 00
" " hard --------- | " ------------- |2 50

Milk is more easily digested than almost any other article of food. It
is very nutritious, and, on account of the variety of the elements which
it contains, it is extremely valuable an article of diet, especially
when the digestive powers are weakened, as in fevers, or during
convalescence from any acute disease. Eggs are also very nutritious and
easily digested. Whipped eggs are digested and assimilated with great
ease. Fish, as a rule, are more speedily digested than is the flesh of
warm-blooded animals. Oysters, especially when taken raw, are very
easily digested. We have known dyspeptics who were unable to digest any
other kind of animal food, to subsist for a considerable period upon raw
oysters. The flesh of mammalia seems to be more easily digested than
that of birds. Beef, mutton, lamb, and venison are easily digested,
while fat roast pork and veal are digested with difficulty. According to
the foregoing table vegetables were digested in about the same time as
ordinary animal food, but it should be remembered that a great part of
the digestion of these is effected in the small intestine. Soups are, as
a rule, very quickly digested. The time required for the digestion of
bread is about the s