Soups.—­Milk soup well boiled, clam juice, beef tea.

Meats.—­Scraped fresh beef or mutton well broiled, sweetbread, beef juice from freshly broiled steak (all sparingly).

Eggs.—­Lightly boiled or poached on dry toast.

Farinaceous.—­Rice, sago, macaroni, tapioca, arrowroot, dry toast, milk toast, toasted crackers.

Desserts.—­Milk puddings, plain, with sago, rice, tapioca or arrowroot (no sugar).

Drinks.—­Tea, toast water, boiled peptonized milk, Panopepton.

Must Not Take—­

Oatmeal, wheaten grits, fresh breads, rich soups, vegetables, fried foods, fish, salt meats, lamb, veal, pork, brown or graham bread, fruits, nuts, pies, pastry, ice cream, ice water, sugars, sweets, custards, malt liquors, sweet wines.

Infants.—­Bottle-fed infants should stop milk and use egg albumen, etc.  This is prepared by gently stirring (not to a froth) the white of one egg in a cup of cold water and one-fourth teaspoonful of brandy and a little salt mixed with it.  Feed this cold.

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If it causes foul or green stools it must be stopped.  Dr. Koplik, of New York, recommends stopping the feeding of breast and bottle-fed infants in severe diarrhea or cholera infantum and to use the following:—­Albumin water, acorn cocoa, or beef juice expressed and diluted with barley water.  The white of one egg is equal in nourishing value to three ounces of milk and is well borne by infants.  The albumin water can be used alternately with the solution of acorn cocoa or beef juice or barley water.  Liebig’s soup mixture is better liked by older children.  Meat juice is made from lean beef, slightly broiled, then cutting it in squares and squeezing these in a lemon press.  Rice or barley water can be added to this if the meat juice causes vomiting.  Add only one or two teaspoonfuls of barley or rice water and increase, if it agrees well, in a day or two.

Cholera morbus (Acute Inflammation of Stomach and Upper Bowel).—­This is most common in young people in late summer, after indiscretion in eating.

Symptoms.—­Sometimes the patient feels tired, then nausea, etc.  The attack though is usually sudden, with nausea, vomiting, and cramp-like pains in the abdomen.  The contents of the stomach are vomited.  The bowel discharge at first is diarrhea and later like rice water.  Repeated vomiting and purging, with severe cramps.  It looks like true cholera.

Mothers’ remedies, Cholera Morbus.—­Castor Oil for.—­“Castor oil one tablespoonful for an adult, one-half tablespoonful for children.”  This is an old, tried remedy and very good.

2.  Cholera Morbus, Blackberry Root and Boiled Milk for.—­“Steep the root of the long blackberry, give in one-half teaspoonful doses; alternate with teaspoonfuls of well boiled sweet milk, one-half hour apart.”

3.  Cholera Morbus, Blackberry Cordial for.—­“Take a quantity of blackberries, strain out all of the juice.  To each pint of juice add a pint of sugar.  Then put in a little bag or cloth one-half ounce of cinnamon, one-fourth ounce of mace, two teaspoonfuls of cloves.  Place this little bag with spices in the berry juice and boil for about two minutes, after which remove bag of spices and add one large cup of brandy or whisky to each pint of juice.”