carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, turnips.
Puddings, fruit or milk wholemeal bread, not much sugar except
for sweetening fruits, etc.

_Tea meal._--Wholemeal bread and butter, nuts, jam, cake, pastry;
hot water.

_At bedtime._--Hot water or coffee.

If our correspondent wishes to remedy this excessive perspiration she
must get a hot towel-bath daily (all over),[14] wearing porous
linen-mesh underclothing next the skin. She should also discontinue
the soft sugary and starchy foods, and not mix fruit with other foods
(it is best taken by itself, say, for breakfast). She needs more of
the cooling salad vegetables. The following diet would be a great
improvement:--

_On rising._--Half-pint of hot boiled water, sipped slowly.

_Breakfast._--Wholemeal bread or biscuits and butter (all made
without salt), with salad or grated raw roots. Stop porridge, jam and
golden syrup. Avoid drinking at meals.

_Lunch._--Two eggs, or 2 oz. of curd cheese. Two vegetables cooked in
casserole without salt; wholemeal bread or biscuits and butter; a few
figs, prunes, dried bananas, or raisins, washed but not cooked. Avoid
milk puddings or stewed fruits as too fermentative and heating.

_Supper meal._--1 to 2 oz. flaked nuts, some crisp "P.R." or "Ixion"
biscuits with nut butter. Some fresh salad or grated roots. Stop jam,
cake and pastry.

_At bedtime._--Half-pint of hot boiled water, or clear vegetable soup,
sipped slowly.

[14] The Sanum Oxygen Baths are also excellent in a case of this kind.

DIET FOR ULCERATED THROAT.

Mrs L.B. writes.--Do you think it would be wise for a person
suffering from ulcers in the throat and on other mucous membranes
to adopt a diet devoid of meat, yeast and salt?

It would certainly be wise to discard meat and salt in a case of this
kind, but yeast is sometimes useful taken as "unflavoured Marmite."
The chief cause of ulcers is the abuse of the soft cereal and sugary
foods. In a case of this sort I should advise a diet consisting
exclusively of well-dextrinised cereals--_e.g._ Granose, Melarvi,
etc.--with plenty of grated raw roots and finely chopped salads and
tomatoes. This can be combined with curd cheese, raw or lightly cooked
eggs, flaked nuts or Brusson Jeune bread as the proteid part of the
diet.

FARMING AND SCIATICA.

Mrs A.C.B. writes.--For two months my husband, who leads an
active open-air life, has had severe pain all down the back of
h