During the severe symptoms of this disease the patient must eat predigested foods, adding, as. conditions allow, mutton broth, ground rice gruel, barley water, and scalded milk; and later, a broiled lamb chop, meat juice on toast, a little minced chicken, and a scraped meat cake. Tea may be taken in the morning, and again in the afternoon, but not with other food. Moderately hot and clear, it is a stimulant.

In certain conditions, even in chronic intestinal diarrhoea, the patient will be troubled with constipation. This does not mean that the disease is cured; it is simply another phase of the same trouble. Return to the liquid diet, modified milk, or add sugar of milk to ordinary milk. Stop solid foods for the time being, and the tea. Use no purgatives unless ordered by the physician.

May Eat

Predigested milk

Modified milk without milk sugar

Blackberry cordial

Elderberry toast

Blackberry toast

Mutton broth, with barley and rice Browned rice gruel German flour and milk Barley gruel

Toasted crackers Zweiback Hard dry toast Weak tea Mulled port wine Port wine whey Claret whey Fresh grape juice Concord grapes Soft ripe peaches followed later by milk soups, hard crackers, lamb chops, boiled minced mutton, Cream of Wheat, well cooked and thoroughly masticated, a little boiled rice, and an occasional baked potato.

Avoid

Variety at meals

All vegetable foods except baked potato and boiled rice All uncooked vegetables Prunes Figs

All fried foods Coffee All the crustacea, oysters, clams and fish Soft breads Rich sauces Soups Pies Cakes

Puddings

Dates

Pears

Rhubarb

Strawberries

Raspberries

Currants

Citrus fruits

Pork

Veal

Bacon

Ducks

Geese

Turkeys