The defective assimilation of proteids seems to be the chief obstacle to overcome in the feeding of this disease. It is always a question whether those from animal or from vegetable foods are more easily assimilated. In a well-known sanitarium in this country, pernicious anaemia patients are put on a diet rich in proteids, but free from the flesh of animals. Milk and eggs, with such vegetables as ground and cooked, nuts, and the leguminous seeds, are substituted. The eating of fatty foods, butter, cream, cocoanut cream and nut oils, is encouraged to the limit of toleration and digestion.

In severe cases, it is wise at first to predigest all foods given. Specially-peptonized milk, milk jelly and milk punch are to be preferred. If starches are given, arrowroot, rice flour and potato flour cooked in milk, are best, and they should be given alone, between meals. Homemade pemmican is a food par excellence in this disease. The marrow must be taken from the long beef bones, and if the patient refuses to eat it raw, it may be boiled and then broiled and served on toast; but it is far better chopped, uncooked, and mixed with an equal quantity of stale bread crumbs; season it with a little plain salt or celery salt.

May Eat

Eggs, raw, with milk

Egg flip

Raw egg with sherry

Raw egg with cream

Milk with cream

"Asses' milk"

"Tigers' milk"

Orgeat

Wheat germ food with cream

Beef meal

Beef panada

Soup a la Reine

Milk soups with whole wheat bread Meigg's food Chocolate Cocoa Arrowroot Rice flour

Potato flour cooked in milk Boiled rice Laibose Meltose Samatose Roborat

Revalenta Arabica

Albuminized milk

Modified milk

Whey with cream

Whole wheat bread, well buttered

Ground almonds in milk

Almond butter on bread

Brazilian nut butter

Cocoanut cream

Cocoanut milk and egg

Albuminized cocoanut milk

Broiled sweetbreads

Predigested sweetbreads

Predigested milk

Broiled scraped beef

Broiled scraped mutton

Stewed tripe

Arrowroot

Rice flour

Potato flour

Puree of dried peas

Puree of lentils

Beef marrow, raw and cooked

Homemade pemmican

Milk, with a little cream added