raw salad vegetables are found to agree; then the rest is easy.

A diet on the following lines would probably be a good temporary
measure:--

_Breakfast._--One egg lightly boiled, poached or baked, with two
Granose biscuits and fresh butter, eaten dry.

_Dinner._--Brusson Jeune bread (one or two rolls) with butter, and
small helping of vegetables, cooked at _first_ in the orthodox way.

_Supper._--Plateful of boiled rice (cooked dry in the Indian
fashion[4]) with a tablespoonful of good malt extract.

No sugar, honey, stewed fruit, or dried fruit should be taken until
improvement has set in. As little fluid as possible should be taken
until the stomach has regained more tone and become more normal in
size.

[4] See _The Healthy Life Cook Book_. 1s. net (post free, 1s. 1+1/2d.).

SEVERE DIGESTIVE CATARRH.

Miss S.L.P. writes:--I should like a little help as to diet. I
have just had an attack of epidemic influenza with throat
trouble, so that I feel very much run down and unfit for a diet
too depleting in character. For over four years I have adopted a
non-flesh diet on account of a tendency to chronic catarrh of the
whole alimentary tract, due to rheumatic tendencies which affect
me internally rather than externally. The continuous damp weather
has produced much gastric irritation, and frequent acidity.

I cannot discover a diet that is convenient and at the same time
sufficiently nourishing. I lose flesh on what I take, and I have
none to spare, though at one time I was inclined to be stout. My
age is forty-eight.

I take three meals a day. A light breakfast either of "Maltweat"
bread or "P.R." Cracker biscuits and butter, with tomato or fresh
fruit or occasionally an egg. For midday meal an egg or milled
cheese, or nuts or cream cheese, with a baked potato and a
conservatively cooked vegetable. Occasionally I have a little
salad and grated carrot, but unless I am better than usual I
cannot digest these. The evening meal consists of "Maltweat"
bread or "P.R." Cracker biscuits or Granose flakes, with cream
cheese. As a child I suffered constantly from colds in the head,
but now my troubles are oftener internal.

The action of the bowels is irregular. I depend chiefly upon an
enema of warm water when constipation is present.

I never drink tea, only hot water, or Emprote and water, or
occasionally veget