Masticate everything twice as long as you think it is necessary.

Do not drink while food is in the mouth.

Do not soften hard foods, as toast or bread crusts, by dipping them in water, milk, tea or coffee.

Never drink tea and coffee at meals. A cup of milk flavored with coffee may be taken in the morning. Weak tea, with lemon and sugar, may be taken between the noonday and night meals.

Leave the table before you feel quite satisfied.

Eat food at moderate temperatures, never too hot nor iced.

Rest, but do not sleep, thirty minutes after each meal.

Avoid

at all times and under all conditions, even after a so-called cure is effected:

All fried foods

Sweets

Cooked fats on meat

Tea and coffee with sugar and cream with meals Chocolate with meals Salads with mayonnaise dressing Pork Veal Sausages

Highly-seasoned sauces Meat gravies of all kinds Pies Cake

Preserves

Iced food at the end of the meal

Pickles

Boiled cabbage

Boiled dinners in general

The outside pieces of baked or roasted meats

Hot breads, except crisp, well-baked waffles

Fruits stewed with sugar

Sea foods, except white-fleshed fish

Thick rich soups

Wines at meals

Where there is too little hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions, give peptonized milk, peptonized oysters, skimmed milk gruels, white of egg and whey, well-cooked light cereals, with skimmed milk, vegetable gelatin with very little sugar and orange juice; puree of chestnuts made without cream or butter; rice pudding made from skimmed milk; albumin and skimmed milk; milk toast without butter; rice flour custards; potato flour custard made with white of egg, no yolk; buttermilk; matzoon; koumys; samatose.

Later, if conditions allow, give a scraped meat cake, broiled; eight blanched, dried and grated almonds, mixed with four times the quantity of scraped mutton, broiled; cocoanut milk custard; lightly cooked eggs; a little broiled young chicken; boiled rice; Cream of Wheat, with skimmed milk; stale white bread; fruit juices alone; almond wafers. A plain, simple diet must be continued for some time. Other easily digested foods that are neither sweet nor fatty, may be added gradually.

May Eat

Peptonized milk

Peptonized oysters

White of egg and whey

Skimmed milk gruels

Well-cooked Cream of Wheat and farina with skimmed milk

Baked potato with salt, no butter

Scraped beef cake, broiled

Scraped mutton cake, mixed with eight blanched, grated almonds; broiled

Cocoanut milk custards

Lightly cooked eggs

Boiled mutton

Boiled chicken

Rice pudding made from skimmed milk

Skimmed milk koumys

Stale bread without butter

Daintily cooked top-ground vegetables, skimmed milk sauce

Nut butter

Tender hearts of lettuce with lemon juice

Albumin in skimmed milk

Albumin whey

Beef panada, made with water

An occasional clear beef soup

Chestnut puree made from skimmed milk

Boiled rice

Carefully baked banana without sugar or butter

Bananas stewed in water, very slightly sweetened

Fruit juices

Fresh ripe soft fruits without skin or seeds

Avoid

All fatty foods, as cream, butter, olive oil, cocoanut creams Hot dishes Iced dishes Iced water

Strong tea and coffee Chocolate Pork; veal Goose Turkey Fried foods Sweets

Puddings

Pies

Cakes

Coarse underground vegetables

Hot breads, as muffins, gems, etc.

Rich cream soups

All sea foods, with the exception of white-fleshed fish and oysters, broiled

All spiritous liquors, unless ordered by a phvsician

If there is an excess of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions, fatty foods are called for. Cream, olive oil, butter, cocoanut cream, an occasional piece of broiled bacon; cereals with cream; baked potatoes with butter or cream; minced chicken in cream sauce; broiled steak with butter sauce; broiled chop; boiled pigeon; tender green vegetables with cream sauce, may all be used for dinner. Give for the night meal, cream toast, or the yolks of two eggs beaten with a half pint of milk, and dry toast; stale bread, with milk and cream; rice puddings, cup custards or well-cooked cereals with cream.

May Eat

Whole milk

Milk soups

Cream on cereals

Whipped cream desserts

Nut dishes

Nut milk

Whole wheat and white bread one day old, well buttered Eggs, lightly cooked, not fried Koumys Matzoon Buttermilk Leban Dainty green vegetable salads with French dressing

Baked potatoes, mashed, with cream

Boiled rice

Gluten bread, well buttered

Broiled meats in a small quantity

Puree of lentils

Purees of fresh green vegetables

Broiled bacon

Beef meal

Cocoa

Chocolate made from milk with whipped cream

One hour before meals a table-spoonful of olive oil

Avoid

Excessive meat diet

Pickles; spiced foods

All sweets

Soft breads; hot breads

Fruits stewed with sugar

Fried foods

Fish; Crustacea; mollusks

Tea and coffee

Milk and meat at the same meal

Eggs and meat at the same meal

Sauces and rich soups

Coarse underground vegetables

Pork; veal

Duck

Goose and turkey, except a little white meat

Ice creams and ices

All spiritous liquors, unless ordered by a physician

Malt liquors

Iced drinks

Nibbling between meals

In dilatation of the stomach, the selection of the proper quantity of correct food is quite difficult. There may be an excess or a deficiency of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions; this, of course, will be determined by the physician, who will from his analysis formulate a diet. In this disease bulk must be given to excite the motor action of the stomach, and bulk is frequently the very thing to avoid on account of accompanying conditions. If there is dilatation and a deficiency of hydrochloric acid, exclude all fats and fatty foods. Give a full diet of broiled lean meats, boiled mutton, with baked potatoes, rice, spinach, cauliflower, lettuce, cress, stewed summer squash, stewed cucumber, fruit tapiocas, dried fruits stewed without sugar, farina, Cream of Wheat, milk puddings and fruit vegetable gelatins; stale whole wheat or white bread, or toasted pilot bread, potato sticks or cocoanut fingers; any hard bread that requires mastication.

On the other hand, if there is an excess of hydrochloric acid, cream may be added to the preceding diet in quantities determined by the physician.

"Dyspepsia" With Flatulency

This usually comes to persons who drink tea and coffee, with sugar and milk, with their meals, and to those who eat soft foods, and to those who bolt most of the solid foods. To correct these conditions, avoid all starches, sugars, all made-over dishes, tea and coffee, liquids with meals; in fact, it is better to take meat at one meal, and vegetables at another, if vegetables do not cause flatulency. Sip a half pint of hot water a half hour before each meal, and drink a cup of weak tea, with lemon and no sugar, in the middle of the afternoon. Take clear orange juice early in the morning in place of hot water. Sometimes four tablespoonfuls of black coffee, hot, may be sipped in the morning to advantage. This may be followed by two soft-boiled eggs and a bit of very stale bread, nothing more. If hunger comes in the middle of the morning take a glass of modified milk, or beef tea, mutton broth, or chicken broth.

For the noonday meal, eat boiled meats, or chopped meats, broiled or panned, and eat with them a saucer of sliced oranges, or a few white grapes, and one dozen blanched and dried, not roasted, almonds. These fruits may be alternated with a tender heart of lettuce, a slice of tomato without vinegar or oil, or very tender celery or endive. For the night meal, take milk toast or milk toast with hard-boiled egg, any of the nut dishes, or cold-boiled chicken, but not any two of these together, unless it is chicken and lettuce. It is wise never to eat meat and milk, or meat and vegetables, at the same meal. A restricted diet of this kind must be kept up until a cure is effected.

Atonic Dyspepsia

Fruit juices are foods par excellence in this disease. The gastric secretions are weak. Foods must be tasty, because the appetite is slim. A baked potato, mashed with a little butter, and a drop of tabasco, is frequently relished; chopped meat cakes, seasoned with tabasco. It is preferable to use liquid pepper, as it does not contain the irritating outside hull of black pepper. Broiled steak, a chop, roasted beef, chicken, turkey, are all admissible. Meat or eggs should be given twice a day. No coarse vegetables are allowable, but dainty green vegetable salads, seasoned with French dressing - oil, a drop of tabasco and lemon juice - are to be recommended. Very ripe raw fruits and fruit juices, cauliflower, tender lettuce, summer squash, tapioca, flavored with fruit juice, and cream soups, are admissible. Highly-seasoned, rich food must be given up entirely.

Hungry Dyspepsia

There are certain dyspeptics who seem to be always hungry. Digestion has been overtaxed for so long, that but little of the food ingested is assimilated, the remaining portions pass from the body in almost the same condition as when eaten. It is not the stomach that is calling for food, but the ill-fed body. The tissues are starving.

Avoid all irritating foods, as bran bread, peas, husks of corn, skins of fruit, black pepper, ground spices, and coarse vegetables, that contain cellulose.

To bring about a cure, eating between meals must be stopped. When hunger comes, give a glass of water, or fruit juices. The stomach must have absolute rest between each of the three meals a day. If the patient cannot be taught to restrain the appetite at the regular table, weigh the correct quantity of food, and insist upon his eating alone. Purees of old beans, peas, and lentils, cream soups, strained cereals, baked potato, boiled rice, stewed macaroni and cheese, cauliflower, nut dishes, and boiled meats, are best to allay the hunger. Do not give more than two dishes at a meal. Give meat and potato at one meal, cream soup and bread at another, or macaroni and cheese, or meat and lettuce, or eggs, bacon and bread, or cereals with milk.

May Eat

Cream soups

Strained cereals

Baked potatoes

Boiled rice

Stewed macaroni

Hominy; hominy grits

Baked sweet potatoes

Mashed and baked sweet potatoes

Pumpkin, baked or stewed

Stale breads

Green peas

Broiled, roasted or baked meats

Eggs

Milk and milk preparations

Nuts (a few)

Almonds with meat

Raw pineapple, grated, served as a sauce to broiled meats, or sliced eaten with broiled meats

Light desserts, like fruit tapiocas

Very tender green salads

Cauliflower

Spinach

Avoid

Tea

Coffee

Pork

Veal

Fried foods

Sweets in general

Pickles

Bran bread

Pepper

Spiced foods Coarse vegetables Beans with hulls on Underground vegetables, with the exception of potato Pears

Watermelons Cantaloupes Rich soups and sauces

Nervous "Dyspepsia"

Nervous indigestion is a term used to cover all sorts of morbid conditions that arise from defective nutrition and physical abuses. When we speak of physical abuses, we have in mind the active business man and the editor, who are overworked and badly fed. Defective nutrition does not always come from lack of food; on the contrary, the overfed, the obese and the painfully thin, are all, as a rule, ill-nourished. Bolting one's food produces indigestion that is the forerunner of nervousness. The vital question is, however, how can we best correct these conditions? What is the royal road to cure?

Keep your thoughts in the right place, and do not worry about your ailments or your business. Do not talk of them to either your family or your neighbors; it is inelegant. All forms of sickness are more or less deformities, not to be spoken of in public.

Do not take drugs without a physician's advice; it is always dangerous.

Fried foods, fruits stewed with sugar, mashed potatoes, soups, and things that can be swallowed quickly at the luncheon counter, must be given up. These foods kill the weak, ruin the middling and help many thousands to hospitals for the insane.

Do not eat too many dead foods - overcooked meats and made dishes, doughnuts, pies and puddings. Use raw fruits, fresh green vegetables, lightly cooked, and fresh green salads with French dressing.

A cure is frequently brought about by eating meat at one meal, and vegetables at another; fruits early in the morning or between meals, or if you eat a hearty breakfast, eat fruit for luncheon, and depend upon a nutritious dinner for general body-building material.

Avoid slops - fermented liquors, weak tea and coffee loaded with sugar and cream. Eat three good meals a day.

Do not drink milk rapidly as though it were water; it is not a beverage; it is a food.

Do not take milk and fruits at the same meal, nor milk and meats.

Avoid rich, oily fish, as shad, pike, salmon, sturgeon, catfish, eels and mackerel; all Crustacea, as lobsters, crabs, shell fish, clams, scallops and oysters; condiments and hot foods covered with melted butter.

Clam broth and oyster bouillon may be taken with good results.

Complicated sweets and heated fats induce false fermentation and produce flatulency and generate an excess of undesirable acids which prevent perfect digestion.

Avoid pork, veal and overfat poultry, as ducks, turkeys and geese.

Eat milk, eggs, broiled steak, chops, roasted beef, mutton, broiled chicken and dishes made from chopped meats, carefully broiled; now and then a baked potato; whole wheat bread, well buttered; crisp French bread, well buttered; fresh green peas, spinach, tender white celery, imported endive, Romaine, hearts of lettuce, stewed cucumbers, dry boiled rice, stewed spaghetti and macaroni. A dozen unroasted and unsalted almonds, well masticated, at the close of dinner, will aid, digestion. Put a bit of butter (not salt) on each piece of celery as you bite it off.

Use pure olive oil and lemon juice over dinner salads, and masticate every piece thoroughly. In fact, butter, cream, olive oil or homemade cocoanut milk and cream should be used in moderate quantities once a day.

An excellent breakfast cereal is ordinary white bread, cut into inch cubes and dried, not toasted, served with half cream and half milk.

An excellent plan is to use a half pint of cream a day; use it in the morning on hard bread; for dinner, over a light dessert