Prunes or figs, stewed or raw, are served at every meal to those who require a specially laxative diet.

If constipation exists, overcome it by an allowance of laxative diet, such as scalded oats, bran, and linseed mashes; also, grass, if in season.

It is a constant maxim with physicians, that those countries are most healthy, where from an ordinary laxative diet, the body is always kept open.