"So you get your patients after all. In fact, having 'neutralised their oxalic acid' to escape you, they come back to you with two diseases instead of one. It seems to me you are a very profitable investment, Mr Pseudo-Science." "Really, Mr Taste, you would not, I presume, have me suppress the truth simply because it happens to be profitable?" "But is it the truth? What proof have you?" "I presume you are ignorant of the fact that animals have died with all the symptoms of oxalic acid poisoning, simply through taking too much sugar." "What kind of animals? You chose such as are used to taking shop sugar as part of their ordinary food, of course?" "Well--no; not in that form. The subjects of the experiment were rabbits." "Ah! And from these you draw deductions about man who has been eating artificial sugar for ages. How like a vivisectionist! But what doses of sugar did the rabbits get?" "About one-fortieth of the body-weight." "That would be as if a man of 150 lbs. weight should take 3+3/4 lbs. sugar at a meal! And since it is excessive fruit you are warning us against, can you tell me how many pounds of fruit--say, apples--one must take in order to get that amount of sugar in a day? No less than sixty pounds. Really your warning seems a little superfluous." "It is all very well for you to scoff, Mr Taste, but if it were not for me you would know nothing about the latest diseases. I really believe you would be content to go right through life without knowing that you had a duodenum or an appendix." "Quite" assented Taste cheerfully. ARNOLD EILOART, B.SC. A SYMPOSIUM ON UNFIRED FOOD. _In November, 1912, we published a letter from a reader containing the excellent suggestion that readers who had experimented to any fair extent with unfired diet should be invited to contribute to a conference on the subject in_ THE HEALTHY LIFE, _and that the symposium should be gathered round the following points:--_ (1) The effect of the diet in curing chronic disease. (2) Its effect on children so brought up--_e.g._ do they get the so-called "inevitable" diseases of chicken-pox, measles, etc., and especially have they good (_i.e._ perfect) teeth? (3) The effect of the diet in childbirth. (4) The cost of maintaining a household in this way, as compared with the cost under ordinary conditions. (5) Is the diet satisfying, or is there a longing for conventional dietary (often found amongst food reformers)? (6) Is the diet quite satisfactory in winter? _A number of interesting letters have been published this year, and we shall be glad to receive a large number of personal experiences, but they must be brief, and classified under the above heads as far as possible. The following is a striking piece of personal evidence._--[EDS.] BUCKHURST HILL, ESSEX, _28th April 1913._ To the Editors of _The Healthy Life._ DEAR SIRS,