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WILDBAD. — CHAPT. VII.

breakfast and dinncr should be so engaged, tbat neither the head nor the body shall feel fatigued. Every severe exertion of the miiid is forbidden, and no sleep must be suflered to intrude on the bours between breakfast and dinner.

"One o’clock is tbe usual dinner-hour ; however in later

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years a table d’liote bas becn arranged for English visitors, at the principal hotels. A moderately nourishing and easily- digestcd dinner suits all patients, but every sort of extra- vagance at table ought to be avoided.

It may as well be stated at once, as a general rule, tbat fruit, raw vegetablcs, and many of tbe flatulent legumes, particularly unripe potatoes, should be carefully excluded from all repasts, by such as drink tbe mineral water. Tbe contrary practice exposes tbe offender to the penalties of incessant rumbling and noise in the stomach, and to pains likewise, which will offen last tbe wliole day.— Strawber- ries however, which grow in prodigious quantities in the woods about Wildbad, may in small quantities, and seasoned with white wine and sugar, be takcn without inconvenience.

It is not judicious to drink mineral water as a common beverage at meals. Wine is permittcd, but in moderation,. and if it produces beat aftcr dinner, it must be omitted. The best wines are those of Würtemberg and Baden, Hock, and the Mosella wines. Patients who suffer of acidu- losity, will do well to kcep to tbe Mosella-wines, while those subject to flatulence, and of vitiated digestion, may drink a glass or two of claret. Champaign, after a copious dinner, ought entirely to be eschewed. — Beer, although it is of good quality at Wildbad, does not well agree with brunuen-drinkers, but tbe use of what is called porter, stout, or double beer, r.annot sufliciently be condemned.

Aftcr dinner, particularly on walks, a cup of coffee is admissible,—as to the propriety of slceping after dinner,