of trying the diet of
twice-baked standard bread as recommended by Dr Knaggs in an
answer to a query in _The Healthy Life_ some months since. She
has asked me if Dr Knaggs would limit the quantity of this bread
taken in the course of the day. If Dr Knaggs will very kindly
tell me this I shall be greatly obliged.

Neuritis is a form of rheumatism or gout which involves the nerves.
Its usual starting centre is the spine itself, from which all the
nerves of the body spring. The diet needs to be greatly restricted so
that the poisons can be eliminated. The most important foods to cut
down are the cereals because they are very slow to digest and are apt
to cause constipation with its attendant self-poisoning of the system
with uric and other acids. Horses and animals suffer from neuritis
from over-feeding with cereals and beans, and the stockbreeder or
horse expert usually restricts these foods and gives plenty of grass,
hay, chaff and green clover, which corrects the trouble.

The same thing applies equally to man. He should take his cereals in
the form they are the most easily assimilated--namely, twice-baked or
dextrinised. Thus "pulled" or twice-baked bread, Granose or Melarvi
biscuits, or rusks, or toasted "Maltweat" bread are the best form of
cereal for people suffering from neuritis. Other treatment besides
diet restriction is, of course, needed to cure neuritis, because we
have to clear the clogged tissues of the poisons which are interfering
with right nerve action. Thus we can resort hot alkaline baths,
Turkish baths, massage and Osteopathic stretching movements to help in
this respect.

H. VALENTINE KNAGGS.

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