es with
potatoes, rice, macaroni, and a dish of corn, rice, groats, peas, beans,
tomatoes or mushrooms. In addition, light custard with fruit or
sweetmeats with fruit.

_Afternoon Lunch_: Fruit only.

_Supper_: Fresh lettuce, with macaroni, baked potatoes, pancakes,
custard; or radishes with cream and potatoes, custard, mild cheese and
leeks.

Exclusive fruit dietaries, comprising strawberries, currants, cherries
and grapes, are effective in preventing eruptions on the skin and
removing their effects.

From one to three-quarters of a pound of fruit should be eaten at a
meal, either with a little bread or with sour milk, and at dinner as a
desert.

In winter, from three to seven lemons a day serve the same purpose. The
juice is used without sugar and with as little water as possible, never
with the meal, but a little before, or in the morning on an empty
stomach. Only fresh lemons should be used for this purpose, not the
prepared lemon juice which is on the market. Tomatoes may be eaten in
the raw state, likewise.

In mild cases of gout and rheumatism some crisp lean meat and fish may
be eaten, but not every day. A diet without meat has a better curative
effect upon the disease.

Alcohol is to be shunned as totally inadmissible. The wines which
contain no alcohol must serve as substitutes.

_Special Diet: For Diseases of the Heart and Inactive Kidneys._

Patients, who are afflicted with any kind of heart or kidney disease,
must be very careful never to overload the stomach. They should eat
small meals, at frequent intervals, and avoid irritating food; the
amount of liquids and milk must be determined by the physician. A
moderate amount of salt only is allowed, and if the physician so
prescribes, a diet containing little salt, must be observed.

In case of acute inflammation of the kidneys, meat is absolutely
prohibited; the best diet is an exclusive milk-diet, consisting of at
least 1 to 1-1/2 quarts fresh milk, and in certain cases warmed milk,
taken by the spoonful; the quantity to be increased, if necessary, to 3
and 4 quarts per day. Instead of milk, buttermilk, sour milk, kefir,
koumiss or yoghurt may be taken.

Beef broths are strictly prohibited. In their place glutenous soups, of
oats, barley sago, tapioca, rice, groat, may be taken; furthermore
leguminos soups, made from the preparations of the firms Knorr, Liebig,
Maggi, and others. 1 to 2 spoonfuls of these preparations are put into a
cupful of