Soups and broths: Mutton, oyster, clam, barley, vermicelli, bouillon, chicken with rice.

Purees of peas, beans, tomatoes, celery. It is often well to add to them meat extracts, peptonoids, beef meal, etc.

Milk or cream in any form, including buttermilk and koumiss, clotted or Devonshire cream, whipped cream, etc.

Shellfish: Oysters or clams, either raw, roasted, or broiled (the livers or "soft parts " only).

Fish of any kind if fresh, either boiled or broiled (never fried), sardines (if they "agree") for the sake of the oil.

Eggs, preferably raw or very lightly cooked, or in eggnog or custard, also poached, scrambled, or in plain omelet (never hard-boiled).

Meats: Beefsteak, rare roast beef, scraped-beef sandwiches or meat balls, lamb or mutton, roasted or boiled; chops; chicken, capon, turkey, either roasted, boiled, or broiled.

Game: Partridge, squab, woodcock, snipe, prairie chicken, quail, roasted or broiled.

Meats, especially beef and mutton, should predominate. Gelatin may be used, but it is not very nutritious. It should be combined with meal or meat preparations.

Entrees: Sweetbreads

Fats and oils (as much as can be digested): Good fresh butter, olive oil on lettuce or raw tomatoes, cod-liver oil, the fat of beef or mutton (if it " agrees "), cream (on everything with which it can be appropriately eaten), a little fat bacon. Pancreatin or pancreatic emulsions will aid the digestibility of fats.

Vegetables: Baked potatoes, tomatoes stewed or raw, very young green peas, string beans, spinach, celery (stewed), onions, boiled asparagus, lettuce, cauliflower.

All vegetables to be eaten in moderation.

Cereals: Whole-meal bread, wheaten or rye, only if stale or toasted, zwieback, rusk, milk-toast, cream-toast, crackers; malted bread and biscuit, rice in any form, mush, hominy, farina, cracked wheat, wheaten grits, oatmeal, macaroni, spaghetti.

Some authors recommend lentil flour, on the ground that it contains both iron and phosphorus. Oatmeal contains considerable fatty matter, and maize has still more. All cereals are to be eaten sparingly.

Fruits: Apples, baked or stewed, oranges, shaddock, grapes, pears, peaches, plums, strawberries, blackberries, olives.

Desserts: Wine jelly, custard, blancmange, rice pudding, bread pudding, junket and cream, Bavarian cream.

Avoid fried foods, rich sauces, pastry, cakes, hot breads, ragouts, beans, carrots, turnips, cabbage, confectionery, puddings, dried foods, salt fish or meats (except as specified above).

Beverages Allowed

Water, tea, coffee, cocoa, milk, koumiss, zoolak, buttermilk, milk punch, lemonade or orangeade, Vichy or other aerated water, non-fermented grape juice, malt extracts.

Alcohol: Beer, ale, porter, wines, liquors, are permissible only if needful for special symptoms - that is, if desirable for food or to aid digestion and promote exercise.

H. P. Loomis gives the following useful sample diet, with the appropriate intervals for taking food. A glass or two of milk may be added at night with advantage:

On Awakening

Eight ounces of equal parts of hot milk and Seltzer, taken slowly through half an hour.

Breakfast

Oatmeal or cracked wheat, with a little sugar and an abundance of cream, rare steak, or loin chops with fat; soft-boiled or poached egg, cream-toast, half pint of milk, small cup of coffee.

Lunch, 10 A. M

Half pint of milk or small teacup of squeezed beef juice, with stale bread. 12, noon: Rest or sleep.

Midday Meal, 12.30

Fish, broiled or stewed chicken, scraped-meat ball, stale bread, and plenty of butter, baked apples and cream, two glasses of milk.

Lunch, 4 P. M

A bottle of koumiss, raw scraped-beef sandwich, or goblet of milk. 5.30 p. m.: Rest or sleep.

Dinner, 6 P. M

Substantial meat or fish soup, rare roast beef or mutton, game, a slice of stale bread, spinach, cauliflower, or other fresh vegetables in season (sparingly)".

At 9 p. m. half an ounce of cod-liver oil should be taken, or an ounce of peptonised cod-liver oil and milk. At 2 a. m., or thereabout, if the patient awakens, a glass of milk, zoolak, or diluted cream should be drunk, or a scraped-beef sandwich may be eaten.