In this disease milk foods must be depended on. Dry albumin in modified milk, Meiggs' food, modified milk without sugar of milk, mutton broth boiled with rice or barley and strained; dry toast, zweiback, water crackers, boiled rice, arrowroot gruel, bouillon or consomme, "ye perfect food," cornmeal gruel, milk and barley water, German flour gruel, blackberry jelly, blackberry drink, grape juice, ripe blackberries without the core, and very ripe peaches. Give vegetable gelatin flavored with brandy once a day. Two hour feedings are recommended in acute cases.

As the patient begins to convalesce, milk soups, buttermilk, leban, koumys, may be added, followed by broiled chops, boiled mutton, scraped beef cake, an occasional bit of broiled fish, with baked potato, boiled rice, and sometimes a little stewed macaroni. Variety must come from change of service and cooking, as this list must be adhered to for some time. A second attack is frequently more difficult to cure than a first.

May Eat, When Convalescing

Broiled, boiled or roasted mutton

White fish, broiled

Baked potato

Boiled rice

Cream of Wheat

Farina

Eggs, soft

Raw eggs

Milk and milk preparations

Junket

Occasionally tapioca, cup custards, soft custards Zweiback Pilot bread Brandy gelose

Water crackers

Hard toast

White bread without lard

Tea

Vegetable gelatin desserts

White of egg on orange juice

Dark, ripe grapes, without seeds or skins Very ripe peaches Toast water Blackberry dishes Elderberry jelly Guava jelly Orange marmalade

Avoid When Convalescing

All coarse vegetables

Bran bread

Cereals

Fruits, except those mentioned

Fats and fatty foods

Coffee

Chocolate

Cocoa

Raw vegetables

Gelatin

Sweets, pastries and preserves

Sea foods

Pork

Beef

Veal

Chicken

Salt foods

Soft bread