working farmer and fairly active for one of my age (69). My diet
is generally as follows:

_On rising._--One or two cups of warm water, sometimes with lemon
juice.

_Breakfast._--An apple or orange, oatcake and dairy butter.
Baker's bread and one cup of tea.

_Lunch._--Nil, or perhaps I should say that I eat an apple or
orange before each meal or a bit of turnip or even cabbage.

_Supper._--Potatoes with fish, and milk pudding. On some days it
may be broth with meat cooked in it.

_Before retiring._--Nothing but water, or at other times oatcake
and one cup of milk.

There does not seem to be much prospect of this correspondent
recovering the hearing of his right ear, as the conditions have lasted
so long. He might, however, certainly try by diet and hygiene to get
rid of the unpleasant discharge and the noises. To effect this he
should carefully syringe the ear once or twice a day with a weak
solution (1 grain to the ounce) of permanganate of potash, using an
all-rubber ear-syringe.

Then he should get someone to well stretch the upper bones of the
spine and to massage well the muscles at the back of the neck to
induce, thereby, a better circulation in the nerves and blood-vessels
which proceed from that part of the spine into the ears. In this way
he will be able to ensure a removal of the clogging poisons which are
lurking in the bad ear and thus promote less noises and a better
health state of the ears generally. The diet should be amended as
follows:--

_On rising._--One or two cups of warm water, with lemon juice added.

_At 8. Breakfast_.--Apples, oranges or other fruit only. _Take plenty
of fruit at this meal and eat it at no other time._

_At 12. Lunch._--One boiled egg or some cream cheese: Oatcakes and
butter or good wholemeal biscuits ("P.R." or "Ixion" kinds) and
butter, and a plateful of finely grated raw roots (carrots, turnip,
etc.).

_Tea meal._--One cupful of Hygiama, using water in place of milk.

_Dinner._--Cheddar cheese or cottage cheese (the latter is best);
potatoes and a green vegetable, cooked by baking or steaming, without
salt. No broth or meat. (Meat and especially meat broths are very
undesirable in this case.)

_Before retiring._--Hot water only.

ANOTHER CASE OF DEAFNESS.

J.A.B. writes:--I have been a reader of _The Healthy Life_ for
the last six months, and am suffering from a complaint since I
was three