In this disease diet is of primary importance. When it occurs in children, the diet should consist exclusively of fruits, tender green vegetables, well-cooked cereals and cream, eggs and milk. Fatty matter is called for in an easily-digested form, as whole wheat bread, well buttered, a little olive oil on hearts of lettuce, or on tart apples cut into blocks, or over well-cooked spinach, or cream on boiled rice, or on a well-cooked cereal.

May Eat

Eggs and egg preparations Milk and milk preparations, excepting koumys Cream Broths Cream soups Whole wheat bread Cup custards Soft custards Fruit juices

Vegetable gelatin, flavored with fresh fruit Carefully-made nut foods Now and then a piece of white meat of stewed chicken An occasional lamb chop, but never at the same meal with eggs or milk All carefully-cooked topground vegetables

Avoid

All sweets

Highly-seasoned made-over dishes

Coarse vegetables

Pickles

Red meats

Bulk foods

Tea

Coffee

Chocolate

Puddings

Pies, cakes

Such raw vegetables as cucumbers, cabbage, or the outside stalks of celery