The usual beverages, as tea, coffee, cacao with milk and sugar, besides small quantities of beer or stout, may be allowed.

Outline Of Diet In Achylia Gastrica

Calories.

8 A.M.: oatmeal with cream, 150 gm.,

395

cacao with milk, 200 gm., .

, 135

toasted bread, 60 gm.,.....

135

butter, 20 gm.,......

163

12 M.: pea soup, 200 gm.,.....

190

scraped meat (broiled) or fish, 100 gm.,

213

baked or mashed potatoes, 50 gm.,

63

spinach or turnips, 50 gm., .

82

wheaten bread, 60 gm., .

135

butter, 20 gm., ......

163

1Meat powder can be prepared in the following manner: Raw lean meat is cut into thin slices and dried on a glass plate on the stove for about two or three hours, then pounded in a mortar and ground twice in a coffee-mill.

Calories.

6 p.m.: two eggs (soft boiled or scrambled), .

160

farina with milk, 200 gm., ...

432

wheaten bread, 60 gm.,

135

butter, 20 gm., .............

163

tea, 200 gm. (milk, 30 gm.; sugar, 10 gm).

60

9:30 P.M.: kumyss, 200 gm.; crackers, 30 gm. butter, 10 gm.; or, instead, a sandwich with cream cheese or caviar, or sardines and beer, ••••••

323

2,947

Here also, as in all other chronic disturbances of the digestive tract, it will be of importance to pay attention not only to the quality but also to the quantity of food taken. And the greatest stress must be laid upon the injunction that a sufficient quantity of food is taken. It is always preferable to have the patient partake of too large a quantity, of food rather than too small a quantity, in consequence of which a condition of subnutrition is so often established.

When the intestine has adapted itself to the greater amount of work and the nutrition is maintained on a well-regulated basis, achylia gastrica need not cause any trouble whatever, and the patient may enjoy perfect euphoria.