During menstruation the diet should be sufficient, but free from stimulating elements. When the menstrual flow is greatly in excess, strong tea and coffee, wine, and beer should be forbidden; conversely, when menstruation is scanty, an invigorating diet is especially indicated, and the use of strong wines. According to the investigations of _T. Schrader_, in order to maintain the nitrogenous balance during menstruation, it is necessary to give the following daily diet, representing a heat value of 2,013 to 2,076 calories: 125–150 grammes of fowl. 100 grammes of butter. 125–140 grammes of white bread. 150 grammes of brown bread. 70–80 grammes of eggs. 600 grammes of coffee. 600 grammes of soup. 560 grammes of Seltzer water. 20 grammes of salt. For chlorotic girls the following diet may be recommended during menstruation. Before rising a pint of milk should be taken slowly, in sips, during a period not exceeding half an hour; for the first breakfast (see note to p. 112), tea or coffee with an abundance of milk, a considerable portion of meat (roast beef, cold fowl, cutlets, or beefsteak); for the second breakfast, a tumbler of milk, bread, butter, and a couple of eggs; for mid-day dinner, a good helping of fresh meat so cooked as to be easily digested, green vegetables, potatoes, farinaceous pudding, stewed fruit, and a glass of burgundy or claret; at 4 P. M., coffee and bread and butter, or a tumbler of milk; at 7 P. M., a similar meal to the mid-day dinner, but lighter; no supper. In this diet-table, which represents a heat-value of about 2,200 calories, albumin and fat are present in abundance (182.8 grammes albumin and 763 grammes fat), but carbohydrates in small quantity only (176.9 grammes). For those chlorotic patients who find it difficult to digest much butcher’s meat, the necessary quantum of albumin must be supplied by increasing the amount of milk, soup, and the white varieties of flesh (chicken and the like), giving also a considerable amount of the more easily digested vegetables, with fruit, beer, and a little claret. For such cases _Desqué_ has drawn up the following diet-table, representing 3,290 calories and containing 150 grammes of albumin, 110.7 grammes of fat, and 449.6 grammes of carbohydrate; meat is given once a day only: 7.30 A. M.— Half a pint of milk, 50 grammes roll, 10 grammes butter. 10 A. M.— 300 grammes apples, strawberries, or cranberries, 50 grammes roll, 10 grammes butter. 12.30 P. M.— 200 grammes of beefsteak, 100 grammes of macaroni, 300 grammes of bread, 400 grammes of spinach, 200 grammes of stewed apples or gooseberries. 4 P. M.— 200 grammes vegetable-peptone-cocoa, 50 grammes roll, 10 grammes butter.