MARCH 223 



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 tele- 

 graphed 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 extraordi- 

 nary 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 leaf- 

 let, and from this I got to know Dr. Haig and his most 

 interesting book, "Uric Acid as a Factor in the Causa- 

 tion 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 Rela- 

 tion to Strength and Power of Endurance, Training and 



