These menus will have a tendency to establish normal digestion and assimilation of food, and normal elimination of waste. When this is accomplished, the instincts and various senses will suggest the quality and the quantity of food, the kind and amount of exercise, and all other natural laws that govern and control the physical organism. WATER-DRINKING IN THE TREATMENT OF NASAL CATARRH Sufficient water should be drunk at each of these meals to bring the moisture up to about 66 per cent of the whole. This will require from one to three ordinary glasses, depending largely upon the amount of residual water in the foods composing the meal. See "Uses of Water in the Body," Lesson II, Vol. I, p. 53. See also "Water-drinking in Cases of Superacidity," Vol. II, p. 434. Water performs another very valuable service. When one eats too many sweets, he should drink an abundance of water. This prevents stomach-acidity, and consequent fermentation and irritation of the mucous lining of the stomach. It also prevents torpidity of the liver, which usually follows the excessive use of sweets. Two or three glasses of water taken at an ordinary meal will all be retained and used by the body, while the same quantity of water taken from two to three hours after a meal, will nearly all pass off in the form of urine. MENUS FOR NASAL CATARRH LATE SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER _NASAL CATARRH_ Sweet orange, cherries, or very ripe grapefruit just after rising. BREAKFAST Three or four egg whites, whipped five minutes, to which add two teaspoonfuls each of lemon juice and sugar, while whipping One very ripe banana, or plain boiled wheat, with nuts LUNCHEON A green salad, with tomatoes and oil One fresh vegetable--peas or beans Corn bread--butter Buttermilk DINNER Spinach, kale, young cabbage, or turnip-tops, cooked One fresh vegetable, in season A baked sweet potato Choice tender fish, chicken, or three egg whites and one yolk, whipped, with spoonful each of sugar and of lemon juice These menus are composed largely of proteids in their most soluble and digestible forms--a most important factor in remedial feeding, especially in cases of either stomach or nasal catarrh. One or two glasses of water should be drunk at each of these meals. Mastication should be perfect before any water is taken into the mouth. The bowels should be kept normal by the use of wheat bran. LATE SUMMER AND EARLY FALL _NASAL CATARRH_ For many patients suffering with nasal catarrh, the following combinations have been prescribed by the author with much success. Choice of the following: MENU I MENU II BREAKFAST