vegetables do go well with cereals, because they contain, not oxygen and oxygen acids, but mineral elements like soda, lime and magnesia, which neutralise the acids and toxins which form in the body as a result of its work.  The vegetable is just as active as the fruit as an eliminant, but it works on different lines.  Cereal foods, if eaten slowly in a dry condition are made alkaline by the saliva, so that the vegetables, which are also naturally alkaline, would harmonise well with cereals if eaten with them.

Our correspondent should modify his diet as follows, and then, I anticipate, he will cease to be troubled with his acid dyspepsia and flatulence.  He should take his fruit alone, and take any of the crisp unsweetened Wallace “P.R.”  Biscuits in preference to the unfermented bread, which latter is often difficult to digest:—­

 On rising.—­A tumblerful of hot distilled water.

 Breakfast (at 7.30).—­Fresh fruit only.

 Lunch (at 12).—­1 to 2 oz. of cheese, preferably home-made curd
 cheese; salad of green leaf vegetables; “P.R.” or Ixion biscuits with
 fresh butter, or nut butter.

 Dinner (at 6).—­1 to 2 oz. of flaked pine kernels, finely grated raw
 roots or tomatoes, with pure olive oil; Granose biscuits, or Shredded
 Wheat biscuits, and fresh butter.

 At bedtime.—­Cupful of dandelion coffee or hot distilled water.

 NEURITIS.

E.M.A. writes.—­At the age of five years I had an attack of rheumatic fever through taking a severe cold, and have been troubled more or less with pains since that time, which I feel sure are caused through rheumatism of the nerves.  I am now fifty-eight years of age and have been a vegetarian for six years.

My diet is:—­8 A.M., cup of Sanum Tonic Tea; 9 A.M., Cup of dried milk; 10 A.M., half of an apple and a little crust of wholemeal bread; 1 P.M. conservatively cooked vegetable, using “Emprote” for sauce; 4 P.M., cup of dried milk; 6 P.M., a little green salad with St Ivel lactic cheese (size of one large walnut); 9 P.M., cup of dried milk.  Do you think dried milk is harmful to me?  I should miss it very much were I to leave it off.  I must mention how great a help The Healthy Life magazine is to me in many ways.

Neuritis is a painful and wearying form of nerve trouble which mostly affects the arms and legs.  It can, however, originate in any other part of the body through the spinal nerve centres.  It may sometimes be due to injury, but the usual cause is some form of thickening or misplacement of the spinal structures, which induces pressure upon the nerves as they emerge through the apertures between the spinal bones.  A careful examination of the back will show the site, and often the nature, of the thickening or encumbrance which is present.

 In our correspondent’s case the thickening process doubtless occurred
 as an after effect of the attack of rheumatic fever.