ilk, sour milk, Dech-Manna chocolate, fruit
coffees, fruits, berries, honey and Dech-Manna-Diet.

_I. and II. A. For Scrofulous Patients._

Two affections, rachitis and scrofula, frequently co-exist, and the same
dietary is appropriate for both. Scrofulous patients often have a great
longing for sulphur and for irritating compounds. Frequently they
consume salt greedily, eat charcoal, onions, and other piquant
substances. This indicates their need of vegetables and fresh greens
full of nutritious salts and of pungent taste and smell because of the
amount of sulphur they contain.

Various kinds of cabbage are appropriate for the principal dinner dish,
cooked or raw in the form of a salad, with horseradish to give them
relish. For seasoning of vegetables and salads, onions and leeks may be
used unsparingly; onion soups will be found palatable and will improve
the lymph.

At supper water-cress, lettuce, radishes, and sandwiches made of chives
are preferable to sausage and rich cheese. Fresh, mild cheese makes a
good side-dish.

Meat should be eaten sparingly, because it rapidly changes into products
of decomposition in the lymph, and so the harmful rather than the useful
fluids of the body are increased.

In connection with rachitis and scrofula a ravenous appetite is often
manifested. This is a morbid symptom. It arises from exhaustion of the
stomach and intestines, for no increase of bodily weight accompanies it.
The greater part of the nourishment taken passes out of the system
without being digested. Such persons, whether adults or children, should
have their meals at regular, short intervals, for they are unable to
restrain their morbid eagerness for food. After a few days of strict
diet they lose their appetite, a condition that must be accepted until a
natural hunger takes its place and results in a normal increase in
bodily weight.

It is well known that many people suffer from hives and eczema after
having eaten certain dishes, such as crawfish, strawberries, oysters,
honey, tomatoes or cheese. For such people to refrain from partaking of
this kind of food is no protection against eczema. Only regeneration of
the blood will lead to a cure.

As a rule such patients should avoid sharp and spicy dishes; especially
desirable is a diet of fresh, good meat, not in very large quantity,
alternating with days on which no meat at all is taken. It is imperative
to avoid sharp cheese, such as Roquefort, mustard, s