Bread, soft puddings without eggs, all vegetables, except peas and beans, fruits of all kinds, gruels and broths.

Avoid

Meat, eggs, peas, beans.

Diet For Acute Nephritis, Uric Acid Gravel

Dr. Hewes, Massachusetts General Hospital1.

Four days. Milk, 800 c.c.; 32 per cent. cream, 300 c.c.; bread, 200 gms.; butter. Feed six times a day with mixture of milk, 150 gms.; cream, 1 oz.; bread, ½ slice.

Fifth day adopt the following: Milk, 800 c.c; cream, 300 c.c; rice, 50 gms.; tapioca, 50 gms.; bread, 100 gms. Occasionally ice cream or custard.

1 Diet used at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. Dr. Hewes, Physician to Out-Patients, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Vary diet from day to day in above limits. If oedema is present and fails to disappear change above to dry salt-free diet. At the start give no more liquid than above; after the oedema is gone water can be given as desired.

Special Dry Salt-Free Diet

Morning

Salt-free bread, 2 slices (toasted if desired) ; an abundance of salt-free butter; maple syrup if desired. 10 A. M. Rice with small amount of cream or sugar (no syrup).

Noon

Mashed potatoes with butter, no salt; salt-free bread, 2 slices; salt-free butter. 4 p. M. Rice, tapioca, or baked custard.

Supper

Salt-free bread, 2 slices; salt-free butter; 2 eggs, soft cooked; 1 orange daily.

Caution

Limit liquids to one pint a day, including milk and water.

Salt-Free Nephritic Diets (Halpin). No.

Milk, 1500-2000 c.c; white salt-free bread, 400-500 gms.; butter (salt-free), 40 gms.; eggs, 4-6. (5-6 gms. NaCL contained).

No. 2. (Widal). Salt-free bread, 200 gms.; salt-free butter, 50 gms.; salt-free beans or rice, 250 gms.; meat, 200 gms. (beef, chicken, or mutton); sugar, 40 gms. (1500 calories). (1-2 gms. NaCL contained. )

No. 3. Potatoes, 700 gms.; salt-free bread, 200 gms.; salt-free butter, 50 gms.; cream cheese, 50 gms. (2000 calories.) (1-2½ gms, NaCL contained).

No. 4. Potatoes, 1000 gms. without salt; meat, 400 gms. without salt; salt-free butter, 80 gms.; sugar, 100 gms. (2000 calories). (1-2 gms. NaCL contained).

No. 5. Potatoes, 16 oz. (without salt) ; rice, 6 oz. (without salt) ; meat, 4 oz. (without salt) ; cream, 8 oz.; eggs, 2. (without salt) ; sugar to taste.