A proper regulation of diet, as well as medicine, is of the utmost consequence in this disease. A free indulgence of animal food is pernicious, particularly in the first stage of it. In the chronic state, a moderate use of it is allowable, and in the lienteric state it answers better in a solid form than that of broth, which is apt to gripe and to run quickly through the bowels. The best general articles of diet are farinaceous bodies; and these are greatly improved by being toasted brown before they are used. It was observed, in a former part of this work, that the flux was supposed to have been prevented, in the fleet commanded by Sir Charles Saunders, by throwing burnt biscuit into the water used by the crews of the ships. It is a good practice to put a well-burnt toast into all that the patient drinks, and toasted bread, or panada made of toasted bread or biscuit, is one of the best articles of diet. Brackish water ought to be avoided, as it ruffles the bowels when in so delicate a state. Fermented liquors are improper, except when the disease is advanced, and where weakness and relaxation are the prevailing symptoms. Malt liquor will hardly ever agree, on account of its acidity and flatulence. Of wines, Port is to be preferred as the most strengthening; Madeira as the least subject to acidity; and, for the common men, no drink of the fermented kind is safer than a moderate quantity of spirits diluted with water. Warm clothing is of the utmost consequence in this disease, and external warmth of the abdomen tends greatly to sooth the bowels. I have seen good effects from a warm gum plaster constantly worn on that part. Though cold is in general hurtful and unsafe, I have nevertheless known the sailors, who, by their habits of life, are commonly heedless, bathe in the sea when labouring under what they call the white flux, without any bad effects. It sometimes happens that this disease baffles every effort both of medicine and diet, so that a change of climate becomes the only resource.