Then he should get someone to well stretch the upper bones of the spine and to massage well the muscles at the back of the neck to induce, thereby, a better circulation in the nerves and blood-vessels which proceed from that part of the spine into the ears. In this way he will be able to ensure a removal of the clogging poisons which are lurking in the bad ear and thus promote less noises and a better health state of the ears generally. The diet should be amended as follows:-- _On rising._--One or two cups of warm water, with lemon juice added. _At 8. Breakfast_.--Apples, oranges or other fruit only. _Take plenty of fruit at this meal and eat it at no other time._ _At 12. Lunch._--One boiled egg or some cream cheese: Oatcakes and butter or good wholemeal biscuits ("P.R." or "Ixion" kinds) and butter, and a plateful of finely grated raw roots (carrots, turnip, etc.). _Tea meal._--One cupful of Hygiama, using water in place of milk. _Dinner._--Cheddar cheese or cottage cheese (the latter is best); potatoes and a green vegetable, cooked by baking or steaming, without salt. No broth or meat. (Meat and especially meat broths are very undesirable in this case.) _Before retiring._--Hot water only. ANOTHER CASE OF DEAFNESS. J.A.B. writes:--I have been a reader of _The Healthy Life_ for the last six months, and am suffering from a complaint since I was three years old. When three years old I was attacked by scarlet fever and on getting better I had a discharge from my right ear. This continued for several years, then it would disappear and reappear at short intervals of say a few weeks. This last few years the discharge has disappeared for six months, only to reappear again for a week with severe pains in back over right shoulder and right side of neck. I always feel weak and tired when discharge reappears and sometimes experience pains in the head and cannot remember anything for a few minutes. This correspondent needs a suitable diet in order to purify his blood stream and to promote elimination of bodily poisons which are evidently affecting his ears. He also needs suitable massage and stretching movements applied to the upper part of the spine, which is functioning badly. Then he can supplement this by taking Turkish baths or wet sheet packs to promote a free action of the skin and thus clear away poisonous waste from the system. The same diet as recommended to the previous correspondent should be tried. CONCERNING COTTAGE CHEESE.