Breakfast.--Oatmeal porridge or brose with milk; bread, butter, and tea. Dinner.--Potatoes galore and herrings, or other salt fish. Supper.--Porridge and milk, or oat bread and cheese, and tea. [78] Aran Coirce: British Medical Journal, April 7, 1906, p. 829. “I have often been assured by shepherds that they could work all day ‘on the hill’ after a breakfast of oatmeal brose and milk, without fatigue and without feeling hungry, returning in the evening to partake of a dish of broth, potatoes, and salt mutton. In these diets, proteid forms a very small proportion, and yet a hardier race than these shepherds and fishermen cannot be found.” It should be added that “brose” consists of a few handfuls of oatmeal, to which is added boiling water, the mixture being stirred vigorously and placed for a few minutes near the fire. It is then eaten with milk, or better, with cream. In the absence of positive data, it can only be asserted that the above dietary stands for simplicity and frugality. Its proteid-content may be low, but the amount of proteid taken per day by these Highlanders will obviously depend upon the _quantity_ of food consumed. Oatmeal is fairly rich in proteid, and it is quite conceivable that the amount eaten daily may be such as to result in a high proteid exchange. It will be profitable for us to gain, if possible, a fairly clear idea of the quantities of food requisite for our average man of 70 kilograms body-weight; _i. e._, the amounts necessary to provide 60 grams of proteid and 2800 calories. With this end in view, we may outline a simple dietary, expressed in terms that will convey a clear impression, showing what may be eaten without overstepping the required limits of proteid or total calories: BREAKFAST Proteid Calories One shredded wheat biscuit 3.15 grams 106 30 grams One teacup of cream 3.12 206 120 grams One German water roll 5.07 165 57 grams Two one-inch cubes of butter 0.38 284 38 grams Three-fourths cup of coffee 0.26 ... 100 grams One-fourth teacup of cream 0.78 51 30 grams One lump of sugar ... 88 10 grams ----- --- 12.76 850 LUNCH