for three weeks and shortly after our return the vomiting of blood and pains recommenced.  After four days in bed she returned to light dishes, and a fortnight after another slighter attack came on, which in twenty-four hours.  She takes hot boiled water five times a day.  She suffers also from a horny skin on the palms of her hands, with deep cracks where the natural lines are.  These periodically bleed.  This skin exists also on her heels and the soles of her feet.  Before and after, an attack this skin seems to be worse than ever.

     I mentioned the fact of the recurring attacks since the operation
     to the doctor and he seemed surprised and said the matter must be
     constitutional and there was no hope for her.

     My own opinion is that pure food will put her right eventually,
     and that these attacks will recur in diminishing force until the
     poisons are eliminated front the system.

     Her diet is at present as follows:—­

     On rising.—­Half-pint of boiled water (hot).

     Breakfast.—­Either Shredded Wheat softened in hot milk or
     breakfast flakes and cold milk:  followed by either bananas or
     apples.  Half-pint boiled water (hot).

     Lunch.—­Ordinary vegetarian cooked dishes, vegetables
     conservatively cooked, some fruit.  Half-pint boiled water (hot).

     Tea meal.—­Wholemeal bread (Artox flour), usually non-yeast,
     nut butter.  Lettuces and radishes when obtainable.  Half-pint
     boiled water (hot).

     Before retiring.—­Half-pint of boiled water (hot).

It has been shown by Brandl and other investigators that ulceration of the stomach can always be produced in animals by feeding them with an excess of sugar foods.  The same thing applies to human beings, who, if fed with an excess of sweetmeats, sugar, milk or soft mushy cereals, will first contract catarrh of the stomach, which will ultimately deepen into a condition of ulceration.

The rationale of the process is this:  Fermentation and putrefaction of the foods eaten to excess produce in the stomach various acids and toxins.  These become absorbed and pass into the liver.  Then the liver becomes clogged, its flow of blood is obstructed and this naturally retards the flow of food from the stomach.  That organ becomes congested and inflamed and, when the lower end, or pylorus, is obstructed, this congested state may easily deepen into ulceration.  We also nearly always find a tender spine, showing that the nervous system has equally participated in the conditions produced, and this nervous factor intensifies the trouble by retarding the due working of the digestive functions.

What we have to do to cure a case of ulcerated stomach is to withhold the foods which create fermentation.  Then the liver will be allowed