A little lime-water may be added to the night milk, to preserve it sweet, and it should be kept covered.
The milk given during the day should be taken at set times, and very slowly sipped in mouthfuls; and this is an important rule in many cases.
Where it is so disagreeable as to cause great disgust or nausea, the addition of enough of tea or coffee or caramel or salt to merely flavor it may enable us to make its use bearable, and we may by degrees abandon these aids.

Another plan, rarely needed, is to use milk with the general diet and lessen the latter until only milk is employed.

If these rules be followed, it is rare to find milk causing trouble; but if its use give rise to acidity, the addition of alkalies or lime-water may help us, or these may be used and the milk scalded by adding a fourth of boiling water to the milk, which has been previously put in a warm glass.

Some patients digest it best when it has the addition of a teaspoonful of barley-or rice-water to each ounce, the main object being to prevent the formation of large, firm clots in the stomach,--an end which may also be attained by the addition at the moment of drinking of a little carbonated water from a siphon.

For the sake of variety, buttermilk may be substituted for a portion of the fresh milk, and though less nourishing it has the advantage of being mildly laxative.
When used as an exclusive diet, skimmed milk gives rise to certain very interesting and what I might call normal symptoms.