Anorexia, thirst, and vomiting are noteworthy symptoms at the onset of this malady, but vomiting is usually not of frequent occurrence. Cool drinks should be given; indeed, water should be administered freely in all stages of the disease, both because it adds to the comfort of the patient and because it will help to avert nephritis, which is an occasional complication. Febrile albuminuria is common; but milk or other nonalbuminous liquid foods will lessen or stop it. During the febrile stage a liquid diet, such as is usually prescribed in acute fevers, should be given - milk, broth, gruel, etc. Often the mouth and throat are so sore from the eruption that swallowing is difficult. Food must then be given in small portions at a time. Ice and icecream are often grateful to patients at this time. Sometimes swallowing is so painful that rectal alimentation must be resorted to. It should not be relied upon longer than is absolutely necessary, for when suppuration takes place upon the skin, prostration develops rapidly and is often very great. It is, therefore, necessary to give food by the mouth as steadily and in as large quantities as possible. Rectal alimentation must occasionally be utilized in order to help maintain strength when the stomach will not tolerate or digest food enough. Milk should be the staple article of diet. Gruels, weak tea, Mellin's food, farina, and similar articles may be employed for variety. If there is no albuminuria, or if it is only trifling and transitory, bouillon, broths, raw or soft-cooked eggs, custards, and such dishes may also be used. If digestion is fairly good, as it is in mild cases, milk-toast, soft-boiled rice or oatmeal, corn-starch pudding, blanc mange, gelatin jellies, finely mashed potato with meat-juice squeezed upon it, may be given and will be relished. In the severe cases these articles may be given only during convalescence.