nts are
digestibility, great variety, abolition of all strong spices, nutritive
and well selected material.

The temperature of drinks must be in strict accordance with the
prescription of the physician. The patient must be urged to thoroughly
masticate the food, so that it will be properly salivated and thus
facilitate digestion. Patients seriously ill, should receive their food
mashed or minced, so that they can partake of it more easily. All waste
parts, such as skin, fat, sinews, bones, must be removed from the food,
even for convalescents. Warmed up food and fibrous vegetables must be
banished from the patient's diet. It must not be a question as to what
the patient wants; the prescription of the physician only must govern.
The patient's food must be prepared carefully, absolutely correctly and
in a cleanly manner. In case of strong thirst, great care must be
exercised in regard to drinks, depending on the physician's directions.
The thirsty feeling of the patient may be alleviated by putting
glyzerine on his lips and small pieces of ice on his tongue, without,
however, permitting him to swallow the water as the ice melts.

_Normal Diet for Stomach Diseases._

Milk, sweet and sour, buttermilk, yoghurt, kefir, albumen cacao, cereals
in the form of mush, strained legumes, cooked in soup or milk, all sorts
of glutinous soups, farinose dishes prepared from stale rolls, biscuits,
zwieback, tender and easily, digestible meats, mashed game meat,
chicken, raw beef, ham, meat jelly, young vegetables, preserved fruit.

Avoid the following: all indigestible fats, meat which requires more
than 4 to 5 hours for its digestion, hot salads, gas-producing
vegetables, gravy, fruits which abound in cellulose, such as apricots
and peaches, hard stems, xylocarp ribs of leaves, the strong smelling
and sharp tasting parts of some kinds of vegetables, as for instance,
new potatoes, cabbage (in the cooking of which the first water must be
poured off), hot soups and spicy herbs, spices of all kinds, high game,
sausages, bacon, yeast pastry, drinks too hot or too cold, strong coffee
(in the place of which fruit coffee is recommended), stale raisins and
almonds, nuts, too much candy, much liquid with meats, and excitement of
all kinds while eating.

_General Hints for a nourishing treatment._

The patient who is to gain in flesh must adhere strictly to the
prescribed diet as well as to the prescribed rest, if the treatment is
to take e