ARNOLD EILOART, B.SC.

 A SYMPOSIUM ON UNFIRED FOOD.

In November, 1912, we published a letter from a reader containing the excellent suggestion that readers who had experimented to any fair extent with unfired diet should be invited to contribute to a conference on the subject in THE HEALTHY LIFE, and that the symposium should be gathered round the following points:—­

 (1) The effect of the diet in curing chronic disease.

 (2) Its effect on children so brought up—­e.g. do they get the
 so-called “inevitable” diseases of chicken-pox, measles, etc., and
 especially have they good (i.e. perfect) teeth?

 (3) The effect of the diet in childbirth.

 (4) The cost of maintaining a household in this way, as compared with
 the cost under ordinary conditions.

 (5) Is the diet satisfying, or is there a longing for conventional
 dietary (often found amongst food reformers)?

 (6) Is the diet quite satisfactory in winter?

A number of interesting letters have been published this year, and we shall be glad to receive a large number of personal experiences, but they must be brief, and classified under the above heads as far as possible.  The following is a striking piece of personal evidence.—­[EDS.]

     BUCKHURST HILL, ESSEX,

     28th April 1913.

     To the Editors of The Healthy Life.

     DEAR SIRS,

As a slight contribution to the interesting discussion which is taking place in your magazine, will you allow me to give you a short summary of nearly sixty years experience of the effects, in my own case, of flesh eating, vegetarianism and the uncooked food diet.

     This is not a fairy tale, as some may be inclined to think, but a
     plain unvarnished statement of facts.

The flesh-eating period lasted for seventeen years.  When three months old I was the unfortunate victim of vaccination poisoning, and for years afterwards was continually in the doctor’s hands.  The best medical men in this country and America were consulted; for months daily visits were paid to a noted Chicago specialist in the hope that he might be able to effect a cure, but it was a case of “love’s labour lost,” and, instead of improving, my condition grew steadily worse.

During all these years, drugging was constantly going on, the pills and potions ordered were religiously swallowed, and, strange as it may seem, the ordeal was survived.  Flesh meat was eaten daily, and, of all the members of the medical profession consulted, not one of them ever hinted that a change of diet might be beneficial.

When 17 years of age my attention was drawn to an article in The Phonetic Journal on the advantages of a non-flesh diet.  By this