The nurse should serve everything in the most cleanly and appetizing way if it is only a cup of tea; and all waste, soiled dishes, napkins, and excreta must be removed as delicately as possible. =Diet for Pregnancy.=—Fresh fish, boiled, broiled or baked; and shell-fish raw or cooked,—any way but fried. Meat, once or twice a day, except when contraindicated by condition of the kidneys. Veal is best omitted. All farinaceous foods and vegetables may be eaten freely. Desserts should be plain, but tempting. No alcohol is taken without direct permission from the doctor, and coffee and tea should be limited. =Diet for Puerperium.=—First two days, milk, buttermilk, soup, gruel, cocoa, toast and tea, chicken, oyster and clam broth. In the next two days, under ordinary conditions, the diet is increased and made somewhat heavier. Semisolids are added like milk-toast, eggs, poached or boiled soft, oysters, clams and boiled fish. After the milk comes in, the woman is put on a general diet as fast as she can digest it. =Farinaceous diet—melons and oranges.=— _Breakfast._—Cereal, coffee with milk and sugar, if desired, bread and butter, corn bread, rolls, toast, muffins, hominy, cereal with cream. _Lunch._—Vegetable soups, bread, butter, potatoes, beans, rice, macaroni and cereal, peas, buttermilk, pudding, such as rice, tapioca, bread cornstarch, jellies, fruit juices, pumpkin, squash, turnips, tomatoes, etc. _Dinner._—Bread, butter, milk-toast, hominy, rice, celery, fruit salads, lettuce, apples, pears, prunes, stewed fruits or fresh melons, etc. _The following diets are routine at many hospitals_: =General Diet.=—Full tray of food in season as furnished by the hospital. Three meals daily. =Light Diet.=—Foods from the following list may be selected, and served three or five times daily, as desired: Soups of all kinds. When leguminous foods are employed, their outer coverings must be removed by rubbing them through a sieve or colander. Vegetables of all kinds, except green vegetables (provided they have been reduced to a pasty consistency). Those with excess of fiber or cellulose, such as turnips, celery, asparagus, and cabbage, should be chopped after thorough boiling, then mashed, while those having tunics should be sieved or colandered. Grain foods of all kinds thoroughly cooked, excepting corn preparations containing much cover, as hulled corn. Prepared foods such as tapioca, macaroni, and vermicelli, require prolonged cooking. Meats, scraped beef. Eggs, soft boiled, raw or soft poached. Bread of all kinds, stale, home-made. Puddings, ices. Beverages, all kinds unless otherwise ordered. =Forced Diet.=—This includes the general diet with the addition of one quart of whole milk and four eggs. The milk may be given plain or as an eggnog at seven, ten, three, and eight o’clock. The eggs may be given raw or cooked soft in any form.