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" The diet should be plain, simple and nourishing. Beef tea, 

 chicken and mutton broth, milk, etc., are the articles generally put 

 down, and what is the result? The little sufferer goes down, weaker 

 day by day, till you fear he will die from starvation, and I am sure 

 they do, if fed on extract of beef and beef tea, for I have seen beef tea 

 that a quart would not give a child any more nutriment than water. I 

 have seen the little patient with that starved look till my heart 

 ached, yet what could I do? I tried all the liquid foods with no 

 good results. 



" But this has all changed. I now feed my patients, from the 

 first, on Beef Peptonoids. I can truly say I have not seen one 

 patient, where Beef Peptonoids was given from the first, that bore 

 that starved, pinched, once-seen-never-forgotten look. The sordes 

 of the teeth and lips are not so bad, and often none to be seen, 

 showing the condition of the stomach to be better. In health the 

 saliva contains sulpho cyanide of potassium. In typhoid the 

 parotid, submaxillary and sublingual glands secrete very little, the 

 mouth becomes dry, hot, feverish and sordes collect on teeth and 

 lips. Anything that will cause these glands to secrete is grateful 

 to the patient and prevents sordes forming. Beef Peptonoids will 

 do this; so will the mother's milk, and the action of both are very 

 alike. 



" Beef Peptonoids is a concentrated food more easily digested 

 than milk, as it will not coagulate, and is highly nutritive. It 

 contains 95 per cent, of flesh forming principles, composed largely 

 of musculine, albumen and caseine. The nitrogenous principles are 

 brought to a partially soluble condition by means of pancreatine. 

 Beef Peptonoids contain very little inert matter, are partially 

 digested, leaving but a small amount of excrementitial substance. 



" It is not enough that food is taken into the stomach ; it must 

 assimilate. Nature can generally dispose of an excess of nutritive 

 material, but she cannot make up a deficiency. If the food does 

 not assimilate there will be all the symptoms of inanition. The 

 eye will glitter with a feverish light; the pupil, enormously dilated, 

 remains fixed upon you without winking, and with an interrogative 

 astonishment, mingled with fear. The breath is extremely fetid; 

 the tongue thin, pointed, elongated and tremulous, often aphthous. 



" As I said before, I have never seen these symptoms when 

 Beef Peptonoids were given from the first, and I have seen them 

 disappear soon after the patient was put on this diet." 



DIET IN WORM-AFFECTIONS. 



It should be distinctly understood that these parasites are not 

 found when the alimentary canal is in a healthy condition ; they 

 require thick mucus for their home and nourishment and unless 

 this be secreted they cannot exist. There can be little doubt that 



