eals he takes, on rising,
an apple or a cup of apple tea; an hour afterwards his breakfast,
which consists of two tablespoonfuls of a proteid food mixed with
distilled water, and a hard biscuit, two slices of whole meal
brown bread, nut butter, and watercress or lettuce. During the
morning he drinks barley water. For dinner, a salad and a few
ground nuts and hard biscuits and an apple; sometimes home-made
nut meat and spinach, hard biscuits and dried or fresh fruit.
For tea, a salad or lettuce, tomatoes, onions and cress, and
Shredded Wheat and wholemeal bread. Last thing at night, a few
steamed onions and distilled water. His bowels are in good
condition, very regular, but he has this constant gnawing pain.
If you can help me in any way as to a change in his diet, it will
be a relief to me. I do not mind the trouble of preparing things
for him. It is about two months ago that he has taken to drinking
distilled water, which I make myself. His occupation is very
sedentary, with long hours, sometimes from six in the morning
till nine at night. He has a bicycle, and gets as much exercise
as possible.

From the description given one would assume that the sedentary
occupation and long hours of work have caused this correspondent to
fall into bad postural habits of sitting and standing, coupled with
excessive depletion of his nervous energy. The diet given is on good
lines and, with the addition of home-made curd cheese and eggs as
proteid, might certainly be continued as it stands, especially as the
bowel action is regular. What the correspondent does need is less
hours of work; more physical exercises of a brisk back-stretching
nature, and certain spinal stretching manipulations of an Osteopathic
nature. Full deep breathing in fresh air will also be beneficial. The
lower part of the spine, from which the sciatic nerves originate,
needs the most attention.

REFINED PARAFFIN AS A CONSTIPATION REMEDY.

Mr E.H. writes:--Will Dr Knaggs very kindly say whether Refined
Paraffin, now being given so generally for the relief of
constipation, may be regarded as a harmless method of overcoming
this trouble or whether its use might lead to harmful results. I
am told that this preparation of oil is not assimilated, and is
therefore harmless, but I should much appreciate Dr Knaggs'
opinion on this matter.

The use of refined paraffi