Diet is of equal importance with medical treatment. Foods must be easily digested, and the diet must be restricted until the activity of the kidneys becomes normal.

If the case is incurable, the diet may be more variable; milk soups, light meats, freshly-killed game, broiled white-fleshed fish, are all admissible. These, however, must be given under the direction and observation of a physician. Patients should avoid coarse vegetables, even raw celery and such green vegetables as asparagus, string beans, Brussels sprouts and mushrooms. Cauliflower, young peas, tender corn, pressed from the hulls, are allowed. The patient should be kept in bed, on an exclusive milk diet for three weeks, followed by a non-stimulating diet for many months to come.

Three quarts of skimmed milk alone, or modified, without cream, adding an extra half quantity of milk sugar or mixed with barley or rice water, or cornmeal gruel, strained, may be given every two and a half hours.

If there is inclination to diarrhoea, give browned rice gruel or Evans's tea gruel, twice a day. If there is constipation, give buttermilk, koumys or leban. Do not give more than four ounces at a time, in feedings two and a half hours apart, unless otherwise ordered by a physician. Nut milk, especially almond milk, made from Sanitas almond meal, may be substituted now and then for plain milk. Give Imperial drink, lemonade and tamarind whey between meals once a day. Avoid all salted and sweet foods.

When solid foods are indicated, give a chicken tim-bale, milk toast, farina pudding, blancmange, a few green peas, boiled and pressed through a sieve, stewed tender celery, rice and whole wheat bread. Ripe dark grapes may be given at noonday. A half dozen blanched, unroasted almonds may be added to the timbales or eaten alone, if well masticated. Baked apples, a little strained orange juice, apple juice and grape juice, are all beneficial.

When the patient has quite recovered, a broiled chop, a little broiled white-fleshed fish, may be added to the preceding list. Oatmeal gruel is frequently very beneficial, and may be used as a breakfast food.

May Eat

Skimmed milk and barley water

Modified milk, without cream

Koumys

Buttermilk

Meiggs' food

Cornmeal gruel

Alkaline waters Effervescing waters Lemonade Lemon squash Imperial drink

Later

Chicken timbale

Poached egg, occasionally

Rice pudding

Blancmange

Bartholow's food

Carefully-cooked prunes

Prune souffle

Minced white meat of chicken

Boiled rice

Occasionally a baked potato

A piece of white-fleshed fish, broiled Cream soups

Fresh fruits in moderation Stale bread Gluten biscuits Delicate green vegetables, with

French dressing

Avoid

All red meats

Rich sauces

Sweets

Pastries

Pies

Puddings

Spiced dishes

Pickles

Tea and coffee

Sour salads

Fried foods

Pink-fleshed fish

Beef tea

Consomme

Bouillon

Meat soups in general

Coarse vegetables

Hot breads

Fresh white bread

New beets

Corn

Raw cucumbers

Salt meats

Lobsters

Crabs

Shrimps

Clams

Cantaloupes

Mushrooms

Cheese