This disease requires no special dietetic treatment and the vegetable extracts reputed to be of value as alteratives are doubtfully so. At certain periods, the diet for mild fevers is appropriate. Otherwise, an abundant, nutritious and easily digested diet should he employed. It is advisable to cleanse the mouth and throat with weak bichlorid solution, before eating, of there are local lesions.

There is probably no necessity of avoiding acid drinks and during mercurial treatment.

The occasional development of stomatitis from too vigorous use of mercury, calls for dietetic management as for stomatitis of similar grade from other causes.

The tendency to vascular and visceral lesions, contraindi-cates tea, coffee, alcohol etc., and, if there is probable danger of rupture of vessels, especially in the central nervous organs, overloading the stomach, eating indigestible foods and various other dietetic excesses may prove disastrous.

On account of the tendency to leucoplakia and other local lesions in the mouth and throat, the use of tobacco should be forbidden.

The greatest care should be taken to avoid infection of others from table utensils etc. Fortunately, this danger is not very great, since syphilis is so prevalent and carelessness in washing dishes so common in restaurants and hotels, that if the infectious agent were readily transmitted or else not easily killed, syphilis insontium would be almost universal.

Leprosy has been repeatedly declared to be due to a fish diet but the general consensus of opinion is against this view and in favor of transmission of the bacillus by ordinary contact, and indirectly as in tuberculosis. While generally considered incurable, the disease is of long duration and theoretically requires a liberal diet. However, wherever it is prevalent, lepers are usually badly cared for in all respects and, from one point of view, there is little to be said in favor of any means that will prolong life.