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1, Food and Drinks which may be Used. — The quickest way is to confine 

 the patient to beef and bread made of gluten flour, which has all the starchy 

 parts of the wheat removed from it in its manufacture; but mutton, tripe, 

 tongue, ham, bacon, sausage, poultry, game, oysters, clams and eggs may be 

 occasionally used for variety's sake (but liver never) ; so also salads, made with 

 cabbage or lettuce; cucumbers, water-cress, cauliflower, spinach and string- 

 beans in their season; so also peaches and strawberries with cream, but never 

 with sugar; in fact, all tart fniit may be used, especially nice sour apples, 

 peeled, quartered and cored, dipped in beaten eggs and rolled in fine or pow- 

 dered crumbs of the gluten bread, then fried in very hot fat and drained while 

 hot, make the best substitute there is for potatoes, which you will see below, 

 must not be eaten. Milk in moderate quantities, cream, nice butter, butter- 

 milk, and all freshly made cheese and Neuchatel (Swiss) cheese may be eaten. 

 Nuts in moderation may be allowed, and eggs freely, cooked to suit tlie patient. 

 Coffee or cocoa, in moderation, with cream, but never with sugar. If tea must 

 be used, let it be weak, and only taken in small quantities. Sour wines, as 

 claret, Burgundy, Rhine, etc., for those who will use them, may be taken in 

 moderation at dinner time. For variety's sake, instead of being absolutely 

 confined to the bread made of the gluten flour, it may be made into rolls, pan- 

 cakes, fritters, mush, and baked puddings, but never with sugar or molasses, 

 nor may these ever be used, even in i^udding sauces. Eat slowly, i. e., masti- 

 cate (chew) very finely, and what drinks are used let them be taken at the close 

 of the meal — as little as possible between meals, of such as have been named 

 above. 



II. Ffiod and Drinks tchich Should Never be Uaed. — Potatoes, turnips, 

 beets, carrots, parsnips, peas, beans (only string-beans above named), rice, cel- 

 ery, asparagus, or tomatoes; nor soups in which common flour has been put, as 

 vermicelli, noodles, nor any of the vegetables above prohibited. No cake nor 

 pastry of any kind, except it be made from the gluten flour; and nothing that 

 contains sugar or starch in any form ; and no spirits, malt beers, nor any of 

 the sweet wines can ever be allowed. Take tepid or warm baths, according to 

 the season, as often as necessary, followed with friction and exercise, as needed 

 to bring a glow of warmth and heat to the surface. [ I can not see why the 

 Salt Water Washings, (which see) should not be used with the friction or rub- 

 bings, as there given; certainly diabetes is a chronic disease.] Also stick to the 

 above directions as to diet, the year round, to avoid a relapse. 



Remarks. — This plan was, I think, adopted by some eminent physician in 

 Europe — I do not remember his name. — then by American physicians, by 

 which it has been fairly tested, and found to be about the best thing that can 

 be done; and it has heretofore been considered to be about all that could be 

 done, but later, as shown below, a few remedies have been found also valuable, 

 and the closer the confinement to the beef and gluten flour bread, for a few 

 months, the better will it be for the patient, using the allowables only, as it may 

 be absolutely necessary for variety's sake. 



2. Diabetes, Ammonia-Saline Treatment for. — It has been 

 foimd recently, by analysis of diabetic blood, that there is a great deficiency 



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