A heavy meal at night, a cup of strong tea or chocolate, are frequently responsible for a sleepless night.

If sleeplessness has become a habit, put the patient on a regular, easily-digested diet, and give rest until the conditions are relieved. Give a glass of hot water the first thing in the morning; breakfast in bed, composed of cereal with cream or milk, and rest for an hour if possible. After the bath, give a glass of buttermilk, or zoolak, or plain milk. For dinner at noon, give boiled, baked or broiled beef, mutton or chicken, a baked potato or rice, one green vegetable, simply cooked, as spinach, cauliflower, asparagus or tender celery; a lettuce or endive salad with French dressing; no dessert. Supper at six; milk toast, Cream of Wheat, gluten mush and milk, well-made cornmeal mush, egg dishes and a little bread only. If the patient is anaemic, or what people call "run down," give two raw eggs between breakfast and dinner, or one egg beaten with a half pint of milk, and another between dinner and supper. If eggs and milk become tiresome, give buttermilk, koumys, zoolak, junket or any of the milk gruels. Give a cup of hot milk at bedtime.