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friends declared I looked old and ugly, and most of my 

 family thought the first illness would play the part of the 

 legs in the epitaph : 



Two bad legs and a troublesome cough, 

 But the legs it was that carried her off. 



My own faith in the matter only grew and grew, but 

 it has taken four or five years for me to be absolutely free 

 of pain, and even to this day I occasionally feel twinges, 

 which I immediately treat by diminishing in quantity 

 what I generally eat. The result is invariably satisfactory 

 and unaccompanied by any feelings of weakness or fatigue. 

 Last year I became the object of considerable jealousy to 

 one of my friends, who could not understand why I had 

 grown so much better. I, loth to encounter the anger 

 of her numerous family by recommending my method, 

 remarked what I did not believe that very likely my 

 diet would not suit her. I am so tired of hearing that 

 ' One man's meat is another man's poison ' ! Seeing the 

 marked improvement in me, and thinking the matter over 

 after I had left, she telegraphed to her London doctor, 

 saying: 'Who is the great authority in London at this 

 moment on gout and rheumatism ? ' He wired back : 

 ' Dr. Haig of Brook Street.' She accordingly went to 

 him. When next we met, one of her first remarks was : 

 ' A most extraordinary thing has happened to me. I have 

 been to a new doctor for my rheumatism, and his printed 

 paper on diet is in all essentials what you practise, except 

 that he orders more milk and cheese.' She handed me 

 the leaflet, and from this I got to know Dr. Haig and his 

 most interesting book, c Uric Acid as a Factor in the 

 Causation of Disease.' This book is rather medical for 

 the ordinary public, who had better begin with his two- 

 shilling book called ' Diet and Food considered in Eelation 

 to Strength and Power of Endurance, Training and 



