The  greenest  heads  are  to  be  preferred  as  they  contain  the  largest
amount  of  the  peculiar  principles  of  the  plant  There  need  be  no
fear  that  they  will  prove  injurious  to  the  kidneys.  Slight  cases
of  Kheumatisin  have  been  cured  by  eating  freely  of  this  plant;
and  chronic  cases  of  rheumatic  gout  and  gravel  much  relieved

Onions  are  very  wholesome  vegetables,  whether  eaten  raw,
stewed  or  roasted;  they  are  too  strong,  however,  for  invalids  when
they  have  not  been  cooked,  and  some  cannot  eat  them  raw  or
cooked.
liettuce  is  agreeable,  cooling  and  digestible  as  a  salad;  the
juice  is  mildly  soporific

CacomberS  eaten  raw  and  quite  fresh  at  the  beginning  of  a
light  meal  may  be  indulged  in  by  some  with  impunity;  but  they
are  indigestible  and  apt  to  disagree  with  many  persons.
Squashes  and  Pumpkins  contain  much  water  but  little  nutri-
ment; they  are  easily  digested.
MushroOmSy  which  are  generally  eaten  after  being  stewed,
sometimes  disagree  with  dyspeptics  and  had  best  be  avoided,  for
sometimes  they  cause  coHc,  vomiting  and  purging.  Those  mush-
rooms grown  in  open  pastures  are  by  far  the  best  It  is  not
always  easy  to  distinguish  mushrooms  from  poisonous  fungi,  so
that  some  caution  is  desirable  in  gathering  them  and  preparing
them  for  food.
A  meadow  mushroom  should  peel  easily,  and  it  should  be  of  a
clean  pink  color  inside,  like  a  baby's  hand,  and  have  a  frill
attached  to  the  stalk.  When  the  gills  are  brown  they  are  growing
old  and  dry  and  losing  their  nutritive  quahties.
