This disease calls for a non-stimulating diet. The heart beat must be kept even and slow, to lessen as much as possible the arterial pressure.. The diet must necessarily be rather monotonous, get variety by changing the method of service and flavorings. Easily-digested combinations must be rigidly enforced. Flatulency is always dangerous. If the patient is to be helped without surgical aid, a limited diet must be continued for some time.

Breakfasts

Glass of milk, one-third barley water, sipped slowly; or two ounces of stale bread with four ounces of milk; or four ounces of any of the milk gruels; or two ounces of fruit juice over a small saucer of dextrinized cereals of some sort; or the top of a shredded wheat biscuit, toasted, with milk; or the top of a shredded wheat biscuit, toasted, with two ounces of grape juice; or the beaten white of egg on orange juice, and a wafer; or the yolk of an egg, beaten with four ounces of milk; or the white of an egg thoroughly shaken with six ounces of milk.

Dinners

Two ounces of scraped meat, broiled, with two ounces of zweiback, pulled bread or stale bread; or two chops (a quarter of a pound) with stale bread; or a mutton cake (two ounces) with stale bread or cracker; or chicken timbale (three ounces), stale bread or cracker; or four ounces of broiled sweetbread, stale bread or pulled bread; or four ounces of cream of potato soup, with one ounce of toast.

Suppers

Three slices of milk toast (two ounces of bread and six ounces of milk); or six ounces of gelatin milk; or two ounces of toast, four ounces of hot milk poured over, covered with the grated hard-boiled yolk of egg; or six ounces of beef meal gruel, with two ounces of toast.

If at any time the quantities here given should be more than can be easily digested, cut them down. Quantities really have no place in a book; they should be regulated by the physician and the nurse.