THE USE OF BASIC DIETS IN THE TREATMENT OF NEPHRITIS.

By the employment of what we are pleased to call a "basic diet," the urinary acidity may be easily reduced to a pH of 7.00 or better. On such diets patients with chronic interstitial nephritis appear to improve, as evidenced by a decrease in blood pressure, albumin and casts in the urine and other symptoms of nephritis and arterial hypertension.