eam, egg,
and vichy, reenforced fruit beverages, malted milk, with egg and
chocolate, cereal and milk gruels, etc., may be given between
breakfast and lunch, lunch and dinner and before retiring. The meals
must consist of the simplest foods that the digestion may not be
overtaxed by the quantity ingested.

~Allowable Foods.~--The following foods may be used in the treatment
of emaciation: All dairy products, milk, cream, butter and cheese,
eggs cooked in various ways, soups of all kinds, meats in moderation,
vegetables, especially potatoes, olive oil, and the various salad
oils, cereals, tapioca, macaroni, spaghetti, noodles, rice, bread of
every description, fruit including bananas, grapes, dates, raisins,
prunes, etc., ice creams, farinaceous puddings, sauces, except those
containing vinegar, grape juice and other fruit juices sweetened with
sugar, cocoa and chocolate, malted milk and proprietary infant foods,
honey, molasses and sirups, cakes, cookies and pastry in moderation.
It is advisable to make milk the chief fluid food; to this is added
cream, malted milk, lactose, eggs, and other reenforcing agents.

~Milk Cure.~--Certain physicians advise milk alone, giving from one to
two gallons a day for three weeks or longer. Many individuals complain
that "milk makes them bilious" but, as a rule, this is because the
amount taken is small and the solids insufficient to lend the
necessary bulk to the feces, consequently the peristaltic action
becomes sluggish and the passage of the food mass delayed in the
intestinal tract, furnishing a medium for bacterial growth and
activity. When larger quantities are ingested such is not the case and
the fluid so high in nutrient qualities is utilized by the body for
the building up of the depleted tissues. When the emaciation is the
result of disease the diet is necessarily adjusted to meet the
condition. At times it is most difficult to overcome the anemia and
accompanying emaciation on account of the disease precluding the
giving of the foods especially designed by nature to produce flesh.
This is especially the case in the progressive emaciation in diabetes.
However, in this case the Allen starvation treatment, with the
reeducation of the organs to a toleration for carbohydrates, has gone
far toward overcoming this distressing condition.

~Readjusting the Habits.~--When the loss of weight is found to be the
result of close application to work, lack of fresh air and sleep, or
f