Dieting is essential. Careful dieting lessens the tendency to catarrhal inflammation and reduces the work of the stomach to a minimum. Still, nourishing food is necessary and the dieting can easily be carried to an extreme. Liquids should not be taken freely. Fatty and starchy foods should be eliminated. Give the patient food at short intervals. Various nutritious meats are excellent. In dilatation, and also general abdominal relaxation, daily abdominal treatments may be indicated. If the relaxation is pronounced, keeping the patient in bed with thorough spinal treatment two or three times a week, daily abdominal treatment, having the patient exercise abdominal parietes by drawing the walls in and up, upper thoracic breathing, and frequent feeding will accomplish comparatively quick results. The progress of each case depends very materially upon the general health, the physical status of other tissues, constitution, inheritance, environment, age, etc. Some cases will yield in two or three months, others will require two or three years in order to obtain the greatest possible benefit. The Prolapsed Kidney A =prolapsed kidney= is often termed a floating kidney, or movable kidney, or dislocated kidney. It is of common occurrence, especially in thin persons. Some authorities state that one woman out of every four has a floating kidney. It is more common in women than in men, and among the working class than other classes. The condition is usually an acquired one, following severe strains from lifting, falls, injuries, etc. It is claimed by some that a floating kidney arises from congenitally weakened and relaxed tissues about the kidney, that is, the tissues that keep the kidney normally at anchorage. Thus a congenital looseness of the kidney would easily be a predisposing cause whence mechanical violence, repeated pregnancies, an enlarged liver, or tight lacing would act as an exciting cause. Undoubtedly in some instances there is a congenital predisposition, the peritoneal fold attaching the kidney to the spine being loose and the capsule of fat retaining the kidney being scanty, but osteopathic experience has amply demonstrated that the tissues anchoring the kidney may in many case become atonied and relaxed from lower dorsal spinal lesions. Rarely is a case presented to an osteopath that does not exhibit two apparently characteristic causative features, viz: spinal irregularity in the lower dorsal spine, and constriction of the zone about the waist, i. e., dropping and constricting of the floating ribs. Furthermore, correction of these lesions will almost invariably lessen the mobility of the palpable kidney.