VEGA.—Your condition is one of the commonest which the aural surgeon is called upon to treat. You have done perfectly right and you have been well treated. You really have no cause to complain, for it is a condition which often requires years of treatment to completely cure. The giddiness, after syringing, is usually due to injecting the fluid too forcibly. What kind of syringe do you use? You must go on with the treatment. You suggest that the syringing increases the discharge, because since you have left off treatment the discharge has stopped. But you are labouring under a great fallacy. The discharge has not stopped, but it has caked in the ear and cannot find an exit. You must be very careful to guard against this, as it is a dangerous condition. There is, or rather there may be, a connection between the discharge from your right ear and the weakness in your right eye. Without a knowledge of anatomy and medicine you could not appreciate this connection if we were to describe it. Suffice it to say that the connection is through the nose. Both the ear and the eye have tubes ending in the nose. S. G.—We really cannot give you much advice without further information. You say you have had “inflammation.” Where? When? And of what kind? More than three-quarters of the diseases of man are due to inflammation. What we believe is the matter with you is anæmia and debility. And the treatment we advise is plenty of good food and outdoor exercise, or as much of these two as you can get. A short course of a mild preparation of iron would probably do you good. But we think that cod-liver oil or malt extract would be better still. VEGETARIAN.—Vegetables vary very much in the ease with which they can be digested. There are very few vegetables indeed which are really easily digested. Potatoes, parsnips, uncooked celery and salads, artichokes, and to these we would add the green vegetables, give difficulty to the digestion, though they should certainly not be excluded from the dietary. Dried peas, Indian corn and haricot beans are about as difficult to digest as paving stones. Indeed, by actual experience, we have proved that paving stones are more soluble in the gastric juice than is Indian corn! Tomatoes are fairly easy to digest, but are liable to produce acidity and heartburn. Carrots, turnips, green artichokes and asparagus are moderately easy to digest. AMELIA.—Read the answer we gave to “Vegetarian.” The old saying that— “An onion a day Keeps the doctor away.” is moderately accurate. Onions will keep away the doctor as they will everyone else who possesses an “æsthetic olfactory apparatus.” But, apart from that, raw onions are indigestible. There is a popular idea that onions only scent the breath if they disagree, but this is incorrect. The reason why the breath of persons smells after eating onions is that the vegetable contains a large quantity of an aromatic oil which is excreted by the breath.