hen caused intense oxidation, with marked elimination of
poisons. His methods, if successful, were drastic and weakening, and
so the latter-day exponents of Schrothism have modified this and give
their patients zweiback or twice-baked bread instead of rolls, and on
the third or fourth day make the patient partake freely of fresh
fruit. This process of alternate dry days and fluid days is continued
for some weeks until the cure is complete.

I have merely referred to this matter to show the part played by fruit
in the body. To a healthy person fruit is in truth a splendid
regenerating food, but it should, whenever possible, be eaten alone.
To a dyspeptic, fruit is often equally good, if _taken by itself_.

The case of vegetables is different, and I hold with Broadbent that
salad or properly cooked vegetables do go well with cereals, because
they contain, not oxygen and oxygen acids, but mineral elements like
soda, lime and magnesia, which neutralise the acids and toxins which
form in the body as a result of its work. The vegetable is just as
active as the fruit as an eliminant, but it works on different lines.
Cereal foods, if eaten slowly in a dry condition are made alkaline by
the saliva, so that the vegetables, which are also naturally alkaline,
would harmonise well with cereals if eaten with them.

Our correspondent should modify his diet as follows, and then, I
anticipate, he will cease to be troubled with his acid dyspepsia and
flatulence. He should take his fruit alone, and take any of the crisp
unsweetened Wallace "P.R." Biscuits in preference to the unfermented
bread, which latter is often difficult to digest:--

_On rising._--A tumblerful of hot distilled water.

_Breakfast_ (at 7.30).--Fresh fruit only.

_Lunch_ (at 12).--1 to 2 oz. of cheese, preferably home-made curd
cheese; salad of green leaf vegetables; "P.R." or Ixion biscuits with
fresh butter, or nut butter.

_Dinner_ (at 6).--1 to 2 oz. of flaked pine kernels, finely grated raw
roots or tomatoes, with pure olive oil; Granose biscuits, or Shredded
Wheat biscuits, and fresh butter.

_At bedtime._--Cupful of dandelion coffee or hot distilled water.

NEURITIS.

E.M.A. writes.--At the age of five years I had an attack of
rheumatic fever through taking a severe cold, and have been
troubled more or less with pains since that time, which I feel
sure are caused through rheumatism of the nerves. I am now
fifty-eight years of ag