The rationale of the process is this: Fermentation and putrefaction of the foods eaten to excess produce in the stomach various acids and toxins. These become absorbed and pass into the liver. Then the liver becomes clogged, its flow of blood is obstructed and this naturally retards the flow of food from the stomach. That organ becomes congested and inflamed and, when the lower end, or pylorus, is obstructed, this congested state may easily deepen into ulceration. We also nearly always find a tender spine, showing that the nervous system has equally participated in the conditions produced, and this nervous factor intensifies the trouble by retarding the due working of the digestive functions. What we have to do to cure a case of ulcerated stomach is _to withhold the foods which create fermentation_. Then the liver will be allowed time to work off the poisons which are clogging its substance and when this has come about the stomach will slowly return to its normal condition. The diet which our correspondent cites is badly arranged. It is a mistake to give fluid _with_ the meals, and the mushy food at breakfast and the soft food at dinner should be changed to drier and crisper forms of nutriment. The following diet would be a distinct improvement:-- _On rising._--Half-pint of boiled hot water, sipped slowly; or quarter-pint Sanum Tonic Tea, taken hot. _Breakfast._--A Shredded Wheat biscuit _eaten dry_ and well buttered; a lightly boiled egg and some finely grated raw roots, especially carrots and turnips. In a case of this sort it is best not to mix cereals with fruits. An alternative breakfast would consist of _fruit alone_ such as two apples, finely grated at first, or two bananas mashed and mixed with pure olive oil and sprinkled with flaked nuts but care must be taken that the pulped banana is well chewed. _Lunch._--Grated cheese, or cream cheese, with some finely chopped salad, or grated raw roots, or conservatively cooked vegetables (preferably roots or onions baked fairly dry by the casserole method) can be taken at this repast. Follow with a slice or two of cold ordinary toast or rusks with butter. _Tea meal._--Half-pint of hot boiled water with a little lemon or orange juice added to it for flavouring. _Supper_ (about 6.30).--Stale standard bread with butter and curd cheese or an egg. The non-yeast bread should be avoided as in the weak state of the stomach it will not be properly digested; besides, the bran may irritate the lining in the present condition of the stomach. As soon as the stomach has regained its power of digesting food, and the ulcers have healed, then fine wholemeal biscuits of the Wallace or Ixion kind can be taken, but the unfermented bread had better be avoided. _At bedtime._--A half-pint of hot water. GOING TO EXTREMES IN THE UNFIRED DIET.