It is of utmost importance, in this disease, to protect the stomach against all sorts of irritations. The body and the stomach should have absolute rest if the case is severe. Maintain the nutrition by rectal feeding. When mouth feeding is admissible, cleanse the nose, throat and mouth before each feeding with lemon vegetable gelatin water, but do not use enough to be swallowed. The stomach must be kept empty except at feeding time, and feedings should be sufficiently far apart to give the stomach rest between. Prevent at all times the swallowing of the pus-like discharges from the nose, if there be any.

An exclusive milk diet is best, if it agrees. If fresh raw milk does not agree, try sterilizing it. The physician who observes the case will decide the quantity of milk to be given, and the time of feedings - four ounces is the usual amount, given every two hours. If sterilized milk does not agree, try modified milk; or plain milk, one-third almond milk; this frequently is more acceptable than any other food. If the stomach is still intolerant, return to rectal feeding. Frequently arrowroot milk, German flour gruel, gelose milk gruel, albuminized milk, almond milk, milk, peptonized by the cold process, and peptonized milk gruels served cold, agree and are retained without discomfort.

If these foods are well borne, add now and then the beaten white of an egg to four ounces of milk; and, if the physician believes in meat (I do not) add a teaspoonful of somatose or beef meal to a cup of fresh beef tea, or mutton broth or milk. The nourishment is reduced as soon as you begin to give meat preparations; if they are continued for any length of time, without alternate feedings of milk, you cannot protect the body against loss of weight and strength. Liquid diet must be continued until all signs of discomfort are absent - a month or a year. Do not begin solid foods too soon; serious conditions are sure to reappear.

If no complications arise at the end of one or two months, add a little well-cooked Cream of Wheat or farina, served with cream, no sugar. Now and then well-cooked farina served with butter; milk soups; egg and milk; junkets, with and without eggs; gelose milk jelly, and Irish moss jelly with milk. Continue this diet, alternating with the first to give variety, for three or four months. Then add slowly, watching the patient most carefully, milk toast, egg soup, carefully-broiled sweetbread, soup a la Reine, a little finely-minced white meat of chicken, a mutton cake, baked potato, boiled rice; a little carefully-cooked cucumber or summer squash, with butter and a little salt; two or three prunes, without skins. Fruit juices may be taken alone at almost any time during the day if they seem to agree, strained orange juice, grape juice and apple juice preferable.

Avoid, for a long time, all fried foods, sweets, severe acids, coarse vegetables, hot breads, pastry, uncooked vegetables, acid fruit juices, uncooked fruits, coarse, cereals, condiments, highly-seasoned soup, rich dishes, fruit jellies, fruits stewed with sugar.

May eat, when a cure is effected

Milk and milk preparations Milk and vichy Milk and apollinaris Finely-minced meats, carefully broiled Cream soups Broiled chop Broiled chicken Sweetbreads Tripe Birds

Baked potato Pulled bread Unleavened breads Boiled rice Fruit juices

Carefully-stewed spaghetti, without cheese

Stewed cucumbers

Stewed summer squash

Green peas, pressed through a sieve

A little pulp of sweet corn, without the husk of the grains

Oysters, stewed and in soup

An occasional baked apple

Stewed prunes

Prune souffle

Prune jelly

Vegetable jellies

Guava jelly

Warm cup custards

Soft custards

Avoid

All fried foods

Sweets; severe acids

All underground and coarse vegetables, as cabbage, onions, turnips

Hot breads; pastry

Uncooked vegetables, as lettuce, celery

Uncooked fruits

Coarse cereals; condiments Highly seasoned sauces and soups Rich dishes

Fruits stewed with sugar Sea foods, except oysters All salt foods Old peas, beans and lentils Fruit jellies, except guava