It would certainly be wise to discard meat and salt in a case of this kind, but yeast is sometimes useful taken as “unflavoured Marmite.”  The chief cause of ulcers is the abuse of the soft cereal and sugary foods.  In a case of this sort I should advise a diet consisting exclusively of well-dextrinised cereals—­e.g. Granose, Melarvi, etc.—­with plenty of grated raw roots and finely chopped salads and tomatoes.  This can be combined with curd cheese, raw or lightly cooked eggs, flaked nuts or Brusson Jeune bread as the proteid part of the diet.

 FARMING AND SCIATICA.

Mrs A.C.B. writes.—­For two months my husband, who leads an active open-air life, has had severe pain all down the back of his left leg.  It is like neuralgia, and comes on worse when sitting.  He has been a farmer all his life, but is anything but strong and constantly taking cold.  Are these pains likely to be due to wrong food?

This pain is evidence of sciatica.  Chills alone will not produce sciatica, which has its real cause in the system being choked up with acids and toxins of various kinds.  In such a case as this, warm water enemas should be taken freely to clear the colon well; sugar, milk and all starchy mushy foods should be strictly avoided; vegetables should be taken either as baked roots or as fresh salads; eggs and cheese should be substituted for meat; and plenty of fresh butter should be taken.  Boiled water, between meals, will be good, but nothing should be given to drink with food.  Salt, pickles, and greasy or highly flavoured foods should be avoided.

 TEMPORARY “BRIGHT’S DISEASE” AND HOW TO DEAL WITH IT.

Miss E. would like to know what kind of diet is suitable for one who has been suffering from Bright’s Disease following a serious illness.  Why should meat have any bad effect upon the kidneys?  She does not take it, although her medical man advises the use of it at once.

It is not an uncommon thing for people who have suffered from an acute septic fever to find albumen temporarily present in the urine.  This is due to the irritant action of the toxins and other poisons (which the fever is the means of ejecting) upon the structure of the kidneys.  The kidneys are filters and they remove the bulk of the soluble waste of the body.

The practitioner frequently finds albumenuria in cases of scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, etc., and the object of his treatment is to prevent this condition of kidney irritation from becoming an established disease (Bright’s disease).

Flesh foods, and especially meat extracts and meat soups, are the worst possible wherewith to feed these fever cases, because they throw so much extra work upon the kidneys.  Meat is composed mainly of proteids.  It also contains the urinary wastes and the toxins (due to fear) which were in