A low diet, with absolute rest, is of great value in the treatment of internal aneurisms. The diet should be only sufficient to maintain life. The method of Valsalva consisted in such a diet and frequent and free bleedings, with rest. Mr. Tufnell's plan of diet, which has proved very satisfactory in this disease, consists in two ounces of liquid and four ounces of solid food morning and evening, and four ounces of liquids and six ounces of solids at noon, and with this dietary is associated absolute repose in the recumbent posture.

To diminish the Volume of the Foetus in cases of Dystocia has been suggested by Merriman, Baudelocque, and Moreau, and was successfully practiced in two cases by Depaul. The method consists in free abstraction of blood, and the lowest diet consistent with the existence of life. At the present time the methods of inducing premature labor have been so perfected as to quite take the place of the practice of Depaul.