eason, and the meals should be taken at regular intervals. Articles of
diet that experience shows do not agree with the patient should be rigidly
excluded from the menu. A varied diet of nutritious character is essential
during pregnancy in order to ensure good blood, health, and strength. A
monotonous diet, or a diet composed largely of stale tea, coffee, and [78]
cake, is not permissible, and may do untold harm. Pastries and desserts of
all kinds should be excluded. In the later weeks of pregnancy, because of
the large size of the womb, the diet should be cut down as the stomach is
interfered with in the process of digestion. Should the patient at any time
during pregnancy experience a loss of appetite, or an actual disgust for
food as sometimes occurs, it is preferable to suggest a change of scene and
surroundings rather than the use of medicine. A short vacation, a change of
table, new scenery, will promptly effect a cure. This condition is mental
rather than physical; the patient allows herself to become introspective;
the daily routine becomes monotonous and stale; hence a change of a few
days will be all that is necessary. If it is not possible for the patient
to obtain a change of scene, a complete change of diet for a few days will
often tide over the difficulty. We have known patients to take kindly to an
exclusive diet of kumyss, or matzoon, or predigested foods, with stale
toast or zwieback, to which can be added stewed fruits. Alcoholic drinks
should be left out entirely.

THE MENTAL STATE OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN.--The coming baby should be the text
of many interesting, spontaneous talks between the young couple from the
time when it is first known that a new member of the family is on its way.
The husband should feel that he is a party to the successful consummation
of the little one's journey. He can contribute enormously to this end. It
should be his duty, born of a sincere affection and love, to formulate the
programme of events which has for its main object the wife's entire mental
environment. He should encourage her to live up to the physician's
instructions, and arrange details so that she will obtain the proper
exercise daily. He should read to her in the evening, and arrange his own
business affairs so that he will be with her as much as is possible. In
many little ways he can impress upon her the fact that they both owe
something to the unborn babe and that each must sacrifice self in its
behalf. Hi