is 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 the animal's body and on the way to elimination
when it was killed.

This sufferer should take one meal per day consisting of fresh fruit
only; the rest of the diet should consist of salad vegetables and
finely grated raw roots, home-made curd cheese, dextrinised cereals
(such as Melarvi biscuits, Shredded Wheat, "P.R." crackers, G