nse the mouth free of the accumulated mucus before drinking the
water.

The use of tea, chocolate, coffee and alcoholic drinks is so abused by
those even who consider themselves temperate in their habits, that I
recommend these beverages as remedies only in certain conditions of the
system.

About four pints of pure water (_i.e._, free from all salts or other
foreign ingredients) should be imbibed in twenty-four hours.

_Avoid_: sweets; pastry of all kinds; puddings; rice; milk; cheese;
new bread; nuts; fried foods; rich gravies; farina and sago
puddings; salt meats; salt fish; veal; goose; liver; hard-boiled
eggs; pork; tea; tobacco; spirituous liquors; uncooked strawberries
and huckleberries. Avoid also tomatoes and peaches when not fresh,
as the acid generated by keeping them a few days is very irritating
to an already inflamed bowel.

Avoid substances that would inflame the tissues or cause congestion of
any organ of the body. If the tongue be coated avoid sugar, starchy
foods and fresh milk.

CHAPTER XXXI.

COSTIVENESS, DIET, ETC.

Take anything in the way of food which the unconsciously starved person
can eat without the stomach and intestines protesting too much; any of
the foods recommended for constipation, indigestion, diarrhea; and take
yet more food if by so doing there is a gain in flesh, after exercising
much patience as to time.

Irrigate the system by imbibing freely of hot and cold water at various
periods of the day. Good red wine mixed with the water drunk at
meal-time may serve a good purpose in helping to enrich the blood.

Keep the pores of the skin open by bathing; and all the functions of
the body active by exercise, massage, pure air, sunlight, rest, sleep
and seasonable clothing.

The large intestines should be kept clean by proper amounts of water
injected into them. The local cause of all the trouble should be
treated by a competent physician.

And with all the efforts, continue the treatment long enough to
accomplish some good and then a much longer time to get well. Do not
give up treatment under which you have improved if it requires one, two
or three years to accomplish what you have so well started out to do.

CHAPTER XXXII.

DIET FOR DIARRHEA.

A period marked by constipation, biliousness or poisons generated
within or taken into the intestinal canal is often followed by
diarrhea. Mental excitement will induce it in some per