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