Typhoid fever in young children is rare. When it occurs in infants between two and five years of age they must be fed, if possible, exclusively upon milk in some form, predigested if necessary, but in each case sterilised or Pasteurised. Children usually take koumiss well and thrive upon it.

If milk is refused, and emaciation threatens in consequence, some concession should be made in the rigour of the diet, but of course no solid food can be allowed. Beef juice, beef, mutton, or chicken broths (not thickened), and beaten egg albumin sweetened and flavoured with a few drops of sherry, may be substituted for milk or alternated with it. Children take junket extremely well. When stimulants are required, from ten drops to a teaspoonful of brandy or whisky, well diluted, should be given.

If they refuse this, a little Tokay, champagne or wine whey may be tried. As a rule they need no alcohol unless they are very feeble, or if complications arise. The nurse must offer water freely. Barley water with a little lemon juice is useful to relieve thirst.

It must be remembered that the temperature curve of typhoid fever in children is often very regular, and a fall to near the normal must not be regarded as justifying an allowance of solid food at once, and no matter how clamorous the child may be for it, exactly the same rigid rules must be enforced as in the case of adults, and for the same length of time during convalescence.