When the disease reaches the chronic stage, the craving and longing for alcohol overpowers the better mental conditions and interferes with the selection of food and the appetite. Highly-seasoned beef teas, strong coffee, with lemonade, may be resorted to now and then, but such foods are a mistake; they increase rather than allay the demand for liquor. The writer has found a never-failing remedy in pure fruit juices, especially strained orange juice. The hours of feeding will be governed by the doctor and nurse. Give at seven o'clock a cup of black coffee, or a grape fruit, or pomegranate, or orange juice, milk and Vichy, milk and lime water, or a glass of lemonade. For the two-hour feedings use milk and milk preparations, broth, beef tea and fruit juice until light, easily-digested foods can be borne, As the patient progresses, increase the vegetable diet; give meats but once a day, and that at noon. Well-cooked cereals, with stewed prunes without skins; peach puree with cream; baked potato; milk soups; boiled rice; eggs; milk toast. Suppers should be exceedingly light, without tea, coffee or chocolate. Where stimulants are constantly on the mind of the patient, tea is frequently borne in the early morning better than coffee, and still better, a cup of mate. If vomiting follows the morning cough, give immediately an egg flip; if this is not retained give a cup of weak tea, or a cup of beef tea, or a cup of peptonized or predigested milk. A good arrangement is to follow the cup of weak tea in two hours with a cup of beef tea; the next two hours, four ounces of peptonized or predigested milk; the next two hours, four ounces of leban or buttermilk; the next, beef juice on a piece of toast, about one ounce of beef juice, and one ounce of toast; the next two hours, egg and milk; the next, two ounces of Meiggs' food. Let the evening meal be six ounces of mutton broth, thickened with rice flour. At ten o'clock, when the patient is getting ready for bed, give him four ounces of warm milk, one-third barley water. If feeding is necessary during the night, use peptonized milk.

If milk becomes objectionable, substitute malted milk, junket, plain plum porridge, milk gruels, milk and vegetable soups. When solid food can be borne, give two ounces of scraped meat, made into a cake and broiled; broiled sweetbread or broiled mutton cake. After the meat has been thoroughly masticated and swallowed, give a glass of Vichy. The whites of two eggs shaken with a half pint of milk, with a piece of zweiback, makes a good supper. If the patient is restless during the night give hot milk at intervals of two hours; it will frequently induce comfort and sleep. If there is a constant desire for alcohol, and the loss is severely felt and produces nervousness, give a glass of half ginger ale and half Apollinaris.

May Eat

All predigested foods

Beef tea

Quick beef tea

Nutritive beef tea

Restorative beef tea

Beef essence

Beef juice

Beef broth

Mutton broth

Vegetable broth

Dried bean broth

Lentil soup

Celery broth

Milk and milk preparations

Broiled oysters

Oyster bouillon

Oyster broth

Clam broth

Milk soups

Eggnog

Egg and milk

Albuminized milk

Almond milk

Lentil milk gruel "Ye perfect food" Cornmeal gruel Rennet and lemon whey Albuminized whey Solid foods:

Boiled white fish

Almond meat cake

Broiled tenderloin

Lamb chops

Stewed tripe

Broiled and stewed sweetbreads

Boiled chicken

Boiled pigeon

Boiled mutton

Beauregard eggs

Coddled eggs

Egg flip

Eggs a la Martin

Poached eggs

Boiled rice

Baked potato

Creamed potato

Carefully-cooked green top-ground vegetables

Arrowroot desserts

Fresh fruits, without skin

Fruits stewed without sugar

Prunes and figs

Tender lettuce, cress and imported endive, with French dressing

Boiled dandelions

Lamb's quarters

Poke shoots

Spinach

Whole wheat bread

Graham bread

Pulled bread

Zweiback

Passover bread

Pilot biscuits

Cocoanut milk and cream, made into desserts Baked apples Guava jelly Orange marmalade Beverages: Saline waters Fruit juices Vichy

Carbonated waters Lemonade Lemon squash Limeade Lime squash

Avoid

All rich, highly-seasoned soups Dark or pink-fleshed fish, lobster, crabs and shrimps All highly-seasoned sauces Underground coarse vegetables Boiled cabbage Brussels sprouts Beets

All fried foods Heated butter Puddings Pies

Hot breads

Tea and coffee, or chocolate, with meals Sweets Cakes

Fruits stewed with sugar Pickles

Fruits with small seeds Ice creams or sherbets at the end of a meal Rhubarb