Bananas In Typhoid Fever

William C. Useery, M. D„ of St. Loute, says that the best food for thoss suffering from typhoid fever is the banana. In this disease, he explalns, the lining membrane oí the small intestines becomes intensely inflamed and engorged. Eventually it begins sloughIng away in epots, leaving well-defined ulcers. At these places the intestinal walls become dangerously thin. A solid food, if taken into the stomach, is Hkely to produce perforation of the intcstines and diré results will follow. Therefore, solid foods, or foods contalning a large amount of innutriclous substances, as compared with nutricious substances] are dangerous and are to be avoided. The banana, although it may be classed as a solid food, containing, as it does, 95 per cent. nutrition, does not possess sufficient waste to irrítate these sore spots. Nearly the whole amount taken into the stomach is absorbed, and gives tb patiënt more streugth than can be