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ECZEMA AS A SIGN OF RETURNING HEALTH.

Mrs M.K. writes:--Until the last few years I have been subject to
sciatica and a certain amount of dry eczema. About a year ago my
health greatly improved, with the exception of the eczema, which
has much increased the last year, coming out in large angry
spots which irritate. I am 69, small, spare and white, have never
been strong until a year ago, have led a sedentary life, being an
artist. Three years ago I left off eating meat. My diet at
present is:

_On rising._--Cup of hot rain-water.

_Breakfast_ (8 A.M.)--Unfired Bread with butter and pine nuts;
cup of weak tea, no sugar.

_At 11._--One raw apple.

_Dinner_ (1 P.M.)--One lightly boiled egg or an omelette, with
"Artox" home-made bread, and butter conservatively cooked celery
or broccoli; stiff milk pudding with eggs in it, or "Artox"
pastry.

_Tea_ (5 P.M.).--Weak China tea "Artox" bread, and butter, and
home-made plain cake.

_Supper_ (8.30).--Slice of bread and butter; tumblerful of hot
rain-water sipped at bedtime.

I have not been able to digest uncooked vegetables, excepting
lettuce; nor do I eat other fruit than apples; any sweet things
cause acidity. I do not suffer with constipation.

In this case it will be noted that the skin disease occurred
simultaneously with a marked improvement in health. This shows that
Nature was adopting her usual plan of forcing the impurities outwards
to the surface and that the change of diet made this possible. With
her body less encumbered with waste a return of health became
possible.

The plan now to adopt is not to check this skin trouble but to cure it
along safe lines by amending the diet and purifying the skin itself by
means of warm alkaline baths.

These baths, which should be taken twice a week at first, are made by
adding a 1/4lb. of bicarbonate of soda and a 1