time to work off the poisons which are clogging its substance and when this has come about the stomach will slowly return to its normal condition.

The diet which our correspondent cites is badly arranged.  It is a mistake to give fluid with the meals, and the mushy food at breakfast and the soft food at dinner should be changed to drier and crisper forms of nutriment.

 The following diet would be a distinct improvement:—­

 On rising.—­Half-pint of boiled hot water, sipped slowly; or
 quarter-pint Sanum Tonic Tea, taken hot.

 Breakfast.—­A Shredded Wheat biscuit eaten dry and well buttered;
 a lightly boiled egg and some finely grated raw roots, especially
 carrots and turnips.

 In a case of this sort it is best not to mix cereals with fruits.

An alternative breakfast would consist of fruit alone such as two apples, finely grated at first, or two bananas mashed and mixed with pure olive oil and sprinkled with flaked nuts but care must be taken that the pulped banana is well chewed.

Lunch.—­Grated cheese, or cream cheese, with some finely chopped salad, or grated raw roots, or conservatively cooked vegetables (preferably roots or onions baked fairly dry by the casserole method) can be taken at this repast.  Follow with a slice or two of cold ordinary toast or rusks with butter.

 Tea meal.—­Half-pint of hot boiled water with a little lemon or
 orange juice added to it for flavouring.

Supper (about 6.30).—­Stale standard bread with butter and curd cheese or an egg.  The non-yeast bread should be avoided as in the weak state of the stomach it will not be properly digested; besides, the bran may irritate the lining in the present condition of the stomach.  As soon as the stomach has regained its power of digesting food, and the ulcers have healed, then fine wholemeal biscuits of the Wallace or Ixion kind can be taken, but the unfermented bread had better be avoided.

 At bedtime.—­A half-pint of hot water.

 GOING TO EXTREMES IN THE UNFIRED DIET.

W.O.C. writes.—­As a bachelor who (not believing in, and therefore doing without domestic help) is anxious to reduce time spent on cooking to a minimum, I shall be glad if Dr Knaggs will tell me whether the use of the oven, pan and kettle are necessary to healthy diet.  For instance (1) would a diet of bread and butter, biscuits, cheese, fruit (fresh and dried), ordinary cold water and cold milk, be as healthy as a diet of hot vegetables, puddings, cocoashell, etc.? (2) Are cooked lentils, butter-beans, macaroni, etc., more beneficial taken hot than after they have cooled? (3) Could uncooked vegetables of sufficient nutriment be substituted for these?  I shall be glad if it is quite safe to live entirely on raw foods, whether fresh