e allowed
time to work off the poisons which are clogging its substance and when
this has come about the stomach will slowly return to its normal
condition.

The diet which our correspondent cites is badly arranged. It is a
mistake to give fluid _with_ the meals, and the mushy food at
breakfast and the soft food at dinner should be changed to drier and
crisper forms of nutriment.

The following diet would be a distinct improvement:--

_On rising._--Half-pint of boiled hot water, sipped slowly; or
quarter-pint Sanum Tonic Tea, taken hot.

_Breakfast._--A Shredded Wheat biscuit _eaten dry_ and well buttered;
a lightly boiled egg and some finely grated raw roots, especially
carrots and turnips.

In a case of this sort it is best not to mix cereals with fruits.

An alternative breakfast would consist of _fruit alone_ such as two
apples, finely grated at first, or two bananas mashed and mixed with
pure olive oil and sprinkled with flaked nuts but care must be taken
that the pulped banana is well chewed.

_Lunch._--Grated cheese, or cream cheese, with some finely chopped
salad, or grated raw roots, or conservatively cooked vegetables
(preferably roots or onions baked fairly dry by the casserole method)
can be taken at this repast. Follow with a slice or two of cold
ordinary toast or rusks with butter.

_Tea meal._--Half-pint of hot boiled water with a little lemon or
orange juice added to it for flavouring.

_Supper_ (about 6.30).--Stale standard bread with butter and curd
cheese or an egg. The non-yeast bread should be avoided as in the weak
state of the stomach it will not be properly digested; besides, the
bran may irritate the lining in the present condition of the stomach.
As soon as the stomach has regained its power of digesting food, and
the ulcers have healed, then fine wholemeal biscuits of the Wallace or
Ixion kind can be taken, but the unfermented bread had better be
avoided.

_At bedtime._--A half-pint of hot water.

GOING TO EXTREMES IN THE UNFIRED DIET.

W.O.C. writes.--As a bachelor who (not believing in, and
therefore doing without domestic help) is anxious to reduce time
spent on cooking to a minimum, I shall be glad if Dr Knaggs will
tell me whether the use of the oven, pan and kettle are necessary
to healthy diet. For instance (1) would a diet of bread and
butter, biscuits, cheese, fruit (fresh and dried), ordinary cold
water and cold milk, be as healthy as a