Most patients with this disease are thin and rather lighter in weight than is their usual habit.

Avoid soups at the beginning of meals. If cream soups with bread agree they should form the meal, and no other food should follow. From five to six hours should be allowed between meals. The heavy meal should be taken in the middle of the day. A cup of chocolate or Meiggs' food, or any of the sour milk preparations, with a bit of bread, make an exceedingly nice supper. All indigestible or coarse foods must be avoided. White fish, chicken, mutton and boiled beef are the only meats allowed. A tablespoonful of boiled rice, or a small baked potato, are the admissible starchy foods. Spinach, asparagus tips and raw tomato, with olive oil or cocoanut cream, may be taken now and then. Bread may be well-baked whole wheat or stale white bread.

Avoid alcohol and all stimulating foods, unless ordered by the physician. If the patient is thirsty give a cup of hot water, rather than a glass of cold water; or give the juice of an orange.

In arranging meals, give for breakfasts one poached or soft-boiled egg, with one slice of hard bread, well buttered. An hour before this, a cup of coffee, half milk, or the juice of two oranges. Variation must come from the different methods of cooking, as the diet is limited.

For dinner, the main meal of the day, which should be as near noon as possible, unless the breakfast has been very late, give any of the meats mentioned, with either a little spinach or baked potato. Do not give a green vegetable and a starchy vegetable at the same meal.

Dessert may consist of ripe grapes, or a sliced orange, or a simple custard. If the patient feels hungry in the middle of the afternoon, give a cup of weak, clear tea, absolutely alone, with not a mouthful of any other food.

Supper

Supper which should be not later than half past six or seven, may consist of a warm custard with hard toast, or toast and milk, or milk toast, or milk and albumin, with a crust of bread, or any of the milk preparations.

When the patient is ready for bed, let him sip slowly a cup of hot milk.

May Eat

Tender lamb

Chopped beef cake, broiled Chicken, broiled or boiled White-fleshed fish, broiled or boiled Oysters when in full season Whole wheat bread, well baked Eggs Warm custards in place of meat

Fruit juices

Milk and milk preparations

Cream soups, with bread, as a meal Almond meal soup Well-cooked spinach Asparagus tips An occasional baked potato Boiled rice Almond milk

Avoid

Salads

All raw vegetables

Coarse vegetables, as cabbage, onions, string beans, old beans, peas, turnips, carrots Pears Plums Cherries

Fruits cooked with sugar Mashed and fried potatoes Green corn Melons

Cantaloupes

Hot breads

Very hot and iced foods

All fried foods

Rich soups and sauces

Pastry

Cakes

Preserves

Hot puddings

Tea, coffee and chocolate with meals Effervescing drinks