1 This includes malted milk, infants' foods, and similar preparations which are sold under various trade names, but are similar in composition.

RAPID REFERENCE DIET-LISTS.

These lists have been inserted to enable the practitioner to make rapid reference when so desired. Additional lists will be found under the headings of the various diseases. Additions and changes may be made to suit the individual patient. It is convenient to have a printed form containing a list of the foods usually allowable and those usually forbidden. With such a form a diet may be easily prescribed by marking off all articles which are not thought desirable. The following is a useful list:

It is frequently found advisable to have a list of the articles of diet most frequently forbidden. The following will be found useful:

General Directions.-As a rule, the food should be fluid and given at regular intervals in small quantities.

May take:

Milk.-Milk and barley water, malted milk, peptonized milk, kumiss, kefir, buttermilk, egg-nog (small quantity), milk punch, milk Vichy. Soups.-Clam broth, oyster broth, chicken, mutton or beef broth, beef juice, beef-tea, bouillon with egg, liquid beef preparations, as panopepton, liquid beef peptonoids, tonic beef, and the like. These should be diluted with water.

Eggs.-Albumin water with flavoring of orange or lemon juice, with wine as sherry or other stimilants.

Drinks.-Water, lemonade, orangeade, grape juice, barley water, rice water, Vichy, Apollinaris, Poland, White Rock.

DYSPEPSIA AND CHRONIC GASTRITIS.

May take:

Soups.-Mutton, chicken, beef, oyster, bouillon, rice, tapioca, barley, vermicelli, clam.

Meats.-Boiled brains, boiled or broiled sweetbreads, raw scraped, boiled, or broiled beef, broiled steak, roast beef or mutton, broiled chops, roast lamb, lamb chops, boiled, broiled, or roasted chicken, squab, turkey, birds.

Fish.-Raw, broiled, or stewed oysters, boiled or broiled mackerel, rock, bass, trout, or blue-fish.

Eggs.-Raw, soft boiled, poached.

Vegetables.-Asparagus, spinach peas, string beans, lima beans, (best mashed and strained) potatoes (baked or mashed), turnips, carrots, (mashed and strained), lettuce (without vinegar,) cresses, (without vinegar.)

Farinaceous Food.-Rice, cornstarch, sago, tapioca, arrowroot, hominy, grits, vermicelli, cream of wheat, stale wheat bread, toast, graham bread, corn bread, pulled bread, zwieback.

Desserts.-Blanc-mange, hominy, custards, rice pudding, tapioca pudding, bread pudding.

Fruits.-Lemons, oranges, raw, baked, or stewed apples, grapes, stewed apricots, raw, or stewed, peaches, stewed pears, stewed prunes, stewed cherries.