It is often difficult to nourish children suffering from this malady, because of the vomiting that occurs so frequently with the paroxysms of coughing. In the severest cases almost everything taken is vomited. Of course, the child then grows pale, thin, and feeble; it may be, dangerously so. When vomiting is very frequent and persistent, resort must be had to nutritive enemata such as enemata of peptonized milk. Inunctions of oil, either of cod-liver oil or olive oil, may also be used as adjuvants to the enemata. In most cases food may be administered in part, if not wholly, by the mouth. Appetite is frequently capricious and much diminished. When it is, food should be administered in liquid form. In all cases care must be taken to avoid both overfilling the stomach and giving foods that are slow to digest. Except in the mildest cases or during convalescence food should be given often and in small quantities at a time. It should be kept ready, so that it can be given immediately after each paroxysm. A few spoonfuls at a time are all that can safely be given in the severer cases, in which it is frequently required at night as well as by day. The food-products to be preferred are milk, kumiss, milk and egg, bouillon, beef-tea, chicken broth, meat-juices, eggs soft-cooked, and custards, gruels, prepared foods, such as Mellin's, malted milk, and milk or cream toast. Since Jules Guyot advised coffee in whooping-cough it has frequently been prescribed for very young children as well as for adults. It is particularly useful when vomiting occurs frequently. One or two teaspoon-fuls of sweetened black coffee are given after each paroxysm. If a case is mild, almost any simply prepared food may be eaten. Care must be taken, however, not to overcrowd the stomach even under the most favorable circumstances. During convalescence, flesh, strength, and color should be restored by a diet as nutritious and flesh-producing as the patient will tolerate.