and
with each case a little book showing the symptoms and treatment of all
ordinary complaints is usually given.

961. Diet in Homoeopathy.

The articles of food that are chiefly recommended when attention to
diet is necessary are stale bread, beef, mutton, poultry, fresh game,
fish, chiefly cod and flat fish, avoiding mackerel, &c., eggs and
oysters. Rice, sago, tapioca, and arrowroot are permitted, as are also
potatoes, carrots, turnips, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, French
beans, and broad beans. Water, milk, cocoa, and chocolate may be
drunk. It is desirable to avoid all things that are not specified in
the foregoing list. Ripe fruit may be eaten, but unripe fruit, unless
cooked should be scrupulously avoided.

962. Signs of the Weather.

963. Dew.

If the dew lies plentifully on the grass after a fair day, it is a
sign of another fair day. If not, and there is no wind, rain must
follow. A red evening portends fine weather; but if the redness spread
too far upwards from the horizon in the evening, and especially in the
morning, it foretells wind or rain, or both.

964. Colour of Sky.

When the sky, in rainy weather, is tinged with sea green, the rain
will increase; if with deep blue, it will be showery.

965. Clouds.

Previous to much rain falling, the clouds grow bigger, and increase
very fast, especially before thunder. When the clouds are formed like
fleeces, but dense in the middle and bright towards the edges, with
the sky bright, they are signs of a frost, with hail, snow, or rain.
If clouds form high in air, in thin white trains like locks of wool,
they portend wind, and probably rain. When a general cloudiness covers
the sky, and small black fragments of clouds fly underneath, they are
a sure sign of rain, and probably will be lasting. Two currents of
clouds always portend rain, and, in summer, thunder.

966. Heavenly Bodies

A haziness in the air, which dims the sun's light, and makes the orb
appear whitish, or ill-defined--or at night, if the moon and stars
grow dim, and a ring encircles the former, rain will follow. If the
sun's rays appear like Moses' horns--if white at setting, or shorn of
his rays, or if he goes down into a bank of clouds in the horizon, bad
weather is to be expected. If the moon looks pale and dim, we expect
rain; if red, wind; and if of her natural colour, with a clear sky,
fair weath