ful of Marmite, only.

_Supper._--Clear, unseasoned, vegetable broth, with Veda or wholemeal
bread, or Granose biscuits, with nut butter and some fresh fruit.

_At bedtime._--A cupful of Marmite.

NOTE.--The unseasoned Marmite should be used, as the ordinary kind is
rather heavily salted.

A BAD CASE OF SELF-POISONING.

Mrs H.W. writes:--I should be very glad if you would give me
enlightenment on one or two points about my diet. I am suffering
from a somewhat dilated stomach, also a catarrhal condition of
nose, throat and alimentary canal, with constipation and much
flatulence in the bowels. My teeth are decaying quickly, my nails
have got softer, and I have become anaemic and generally
debilitated, being unable to properly assimilate my food. All my
joints crack when moved, and the knee joints creak as well. Is
this a uric acid condition, or do you think it merely due to a
lack of nourishment, causing a lack of synovial fluid? The joints
are not swollen and not painful, they merely crack. My whole
system seems to be over-acid, and my mouth gets sore and
ulcerated. I have got very thin, having lost a stone in twelve
months.

I notice that you always advise for dilated stomach greatly
restricting the liquid part of the diet. Will you tell me just
how much one _may_ drink in a day, because when I go without
drinking my constipation and other troubles are worse and the
urine gets thick and muddy.

You also deprecate milk. This puzzled me until you explained to a
correspondent last month in _The Healthy Life_. Will you tell me
if the same applies to dried milk--will it tend to increase
intestinal trouble? I am anxious to know this because I have been
relying somewhat on Emprote and Hygiama lately, for I had got so
that I could scarcely digest anything.

Do you consider it better to use the enema than to take a mild
aperient? I do not want to start with the enema again if I can
possibly manage to do without, because I found that my bowels
depended upon it. And that is why I want to ask if it is
absolutely necessary when on an antiseptic diet to entirely avoid
fruit. I find it so necessary to keep the bowels working
naturally.

I _do_ want you to answer me these questions, because I have got
so worried and fearful (people's theories are so varied) that I
scarcely dare eat a