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 b