The intense inflammation of the skin in this disease indicates a diet free from the proteids of meat.

The writer has had success with a simple diet of milk gruels, infants' foods, with eggs, milk, nut milks, milk and vichy water. This diet changes, when the patient is convalescing, to carefully-cooked farina, Cream of Wheat, well-baked whole wheat bread, milk toast, egg toast, coddled eggs, cup custards, junket, koumys, leban, matzoon; followed later by a broiled chop, a broiled chicken, baked potato, carefully-boiled rice, whole wheat bread, fruits, spinach, cress or lettuce. Do not allow the patient to return too quickly to a meat diet; he must also avoid all fried foods, coarse vegetables, pies, puddings, rich sauces, liquors, both malt and alcoholic, strong coffee, tea and chocolate, and meat soups, in fact all soups at the beginning of meals; fruits stewed with sugar, cookies, cakes, candies, and pickles.