hows a strong desire for food--especially
fruit.

Any lack of firmness and caution in this respect may have the most
disastrous consequences. Many a patient suffering from typhus has lost
his life or experienced a bad relapse and hemorrhages of the intestines
through a mistake in diet,--through taking too much or unsuitable food.

The most critical period for the liability to hemorrhage, which in some
cases is very profuse, is the third, and in lighter cases, the second
week, when the crust of the intestinal ulcers begins to scale off.

The diet list, as in cases of typhus, consists of Form II, and milk;
and it should be made a rule to confine it strictly to the most simple
food, bouillon, mucilaginous soups, milk, undiluted or with tea,
everything prepared with a little egg. Cream will sometimes agree with
the patient.

The stools will indicate the digestion or otherwise of the milk. If
there are many morsels of casein apparent in the same, the quantity of
milk must be reduced and given in diluted form. The use of meat juice,
liquid or frozen, and meat jelly, is quite permissible. Although neither
of these preparations are very strong, they must be considered as
important building-stones for the nourishment of the patient, and they
offer a little variety, which is often most desirable.

_Drinks._ For drinking, usually fresh water is used, also bread and
albumen water, especially Dechmann's Plasmogen, 15 grains in one pint of
water, a mouthful from time to time alternating with Dechmann's Tonogen.

Great caution must be used in regard to fruit juices and lemonade on
account of the danger of irritation of the intestines.

Carbonated and other mineral waters must be strictly avoided, since they
only add to the usually prevailing meteorism, or gas in the abdominal
cavity.

Albumen water, which is occasionally used in case of febrile disease and
intestinal catarrh of children, is prepared by mixing the white of an
egg and two to four spoonfuls of sugar in a tumbler of water. This is
strained and cooled before being used. It is easily understood that by
this we generate new life in the patient, so to speak, through the
albumen, since it contains a large quantity of tissue building
material, which in turn prevents catabolism or destruction of the
organism, this as contrasted with the methods of the old regime which
dooms the patient to certain death by opiates,--a course frequently
resorted to by inexperienced practi