for a short time the experimenter
gained weight, but malnutrition and dyspepsia set in, and he had to give
up. The best diet-calculator is a normal appetite, and fancy aids digestion
more than a pair of scales.

In spite of rabid veget- and other "arians", most foods are good (making
allowances for personal idiosyncrasy) if thoroughly masticated. The
oft-quoted analogy of the cow is incorrect, for herbivora are able to
digest cellulose; but even cows masticate most laboriously.

Meat juices are the most digestion-compelling substances in existence, and
a little meat soup, "Oxo" or "Bovril" is an excellent first course.

No one needs more than three meals per day, while millions thrive on one or
two only, which should be ready at fixed hours; for the stomach when
habituated becomes congested and secretes gastric juice at those hours
without the impulse of the will, is ready to digest food, and gets that
rest between-times which is essential to sound digestion. The man who has
snacks between meals, and chocolates and biscuits between snacks can never
hope to get well.

To eat the largest meal at midday, as is the custom of working-men, is
best, provided one can take half an hour's rest afterwards.

Drink a pint of tepid water half an hour before every meal. If the stomach
be very foul, add a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda to the water.

The question of alcohol is a vexed one, but Paul's "Take a little wine for
thy stomach's sake," is undoubtedly sound advice, though had Paul been
trained at a London hospital, he would have added "after meals".
Unfortunately, moderation is usually beyond the ability of the neuropath,
and consequently he should be forbidden to take alcohol at all. Spirits
must be avoided.

Moderately strong, freshly made tea or coffee may be consumed in reasonable
quantity.

Vegetable salads are excellent if compounded with liquids other than
vinegar or salad oil, and of ingredients other than cucumbers, radishes,
and the like.

Take little starchy food and sweetmeats. It may surprise those with "a
sweet tooth" to learn that, to the end of the Middle Ages, sugar was used
only as a medicine. Meat must be eaten--if at all--in the very strictest
moderation, and never more than once a day. Eggs, fish and poultry--in
moderation too--take its place.

Healthy children need very little meat, while it is a moot point if
children of unstable, nervous build need any at all. The diet at homes for
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