age of ninety-five or a hundred, and upwards, carries with it, in evidence of right living, the force of demonstration, and more conclusively, in direct ratio to the advance of years.  I firmly believe that all anomalies will ultimately admit of resolution.  In this connection I could mention a number of strange and paradoxical cases for which, as yet, I have obtained no solution.  I know of centenarians who began using “sugar” freely late in life.  In one case, when past eighty, a new set of teeth (not odd “supernumeraries”) appeared all round!  How is it, again, that the natives of the West Indies, when living on sugar (in its crude state, I suppose) have excellent teeth and perfect health?  Is not raw sugar better the less manufactured it is?  On the other side, Captain Diamond, at 114, attributes his health in great measure to abstinence from sugar.

 Most of these queries are answered in the completed book[10] published
 this year.  The point about “milk sugar” not being injurious he will
 find answered on page 72.

 [10] The Truth about Sugar, 1s. net. (C.W.  Daniel, Ltd.)

“Milk sugars” taken to excess with a mixed diet, or in the form of milk as a beverage, break down into lactic, butyric and other destructive acids under the influence of intestinal germs and thus do harm to the body.

The natives of the West Indies (page 39) take the sugar cane in its natural state as a living vegetable food—­a very different thing from the isolated and chemicalised sugar on our tables at home.  Moreover, the chewing required helps digestion.  This is very different to the drinking rapidly of sugared beverages, which do not receive this necessary mouth preparation.

One is quite prepared to admit that paradoxical cases do occur where sugar seems to agree well even with octogenarians, but they are, in my opinion, the exceptions, and I am constantly coming across cases where the free consumption of table sugars has proved very harmful to both old and young.

 ULCERATION OF THE STOMACH.

A.L.M. writes.—­Our domestic servant, a girl aged twenty-four, is suffering from ulceration of the stomach and has had periodical attacks for the past six years.  She has apparently, until she came to us, eaten and drunk very unwisely.  She has been with us seven months and has been fed on a non-flesh diet since she came.  For the last four weeks tea, coffee and cocoa have been forbidden, and as little sugar is consumed as possible.  She had a very bad attack in August and we had to call in a doctor is we did not like the responsibility.  He strongly recommended the hospital and an operation, which would ensure that there would be no repetition of the complaint.  She decided to go and was there six weeks.  After much experimenting there, inoculating and wondering whether it was tuberculosis, they operated and in due course she came back.  We went to the sea