We are frequently confronted with the problem of improving the general nutrition of a patient with all the means at our disposal. Indications for this endeavor may lie in a considerable loss of weight and strength, in patients who formerly were in a normal state of nutrition, as a result of disease, overwork, inadequate feeding or an improper mode of life; many such individuals, it will be found, are incapable, unaided by medical advice and guidance, of regaining their former strength and good nutrition. In other cases faulty diet from childhood up must be blamed with having prevented certain individuals from really ever attaining the possible optimum of nutrition.