ributes 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 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