This, like a hundred and one other diseases, comes from faulty digestion. Gall stones are found more frequently in persons who have passed middle life, whose digestion and assimilation for fats, sweets and starches are gradually lowering, and among women who wear tight clothing, or those who sit in cramped positions, as tailors, dressmakers and sewing machine operators. In these cases give a well-cooked cereal, Cream of Wheat, gluten mush, farina, banana flour mush and taro mush with cream. Broiled white meat of chicken or white-fleshed fish, with lettuce, cress, endive, spinach, cauliflower, asparagus, oranges, grape fruit, and lemonade with very little sugar, must form the bulk of the diet. A baked potato may be eaten once a day. Yolk of egg with milk, with hard bread, may be eaten now and then between meals. Weak tea may be given in the afternoon and plenty of soft water between meals. A tumblerful of hot water the first thing in the morning and last at night, will be advantageous.

May Eat

Coffee early in the morning

Tea in the middle of the afternoon, without food

Olive oil in goodly quantities

Lettuce and cress with French dressing

Cabbage

Brussels sprouts

Acid fruits

White bread

Unleavened bread

Gluten biscuits

Cocoanut sticks

Fruit gelose

Baked potatoes '

Potatoes mashed and baked

Nut dishes

Hard-boiled yolks of eggs

Grapes

Lemonade Orangeade Effervescing waters Plain water in abundance An occasional nut dish Almond milk Leban Koumys Buttermilk Clabber

Albuminized milk Albuminized whey Orange juice and white of egg Apple juice and white of egg Baked apples Strawberries

Strained currant juice with effervescing waters Grape juice

Avoid

Avoid all the internal organs of animals used as food Calves' brains Tripe Kidneys Sweetbreads Liver Old peas Beans Lentils Bananas Dates

Prunes

All fried foods

Fat meats in general

Sea foods in general

Yolks of eggs

Peaches

Carrots

Figs

Raisins

All made dishes

Sweets of every kind