I am convinced that indigestion need not be such an universal complaint if people would treat their bodies in the same way as they treat their employees, and make them work hard on the lowest possible wage, with proper periods for rest. Abstemiousness and physiological rest are, in my opinion, the initial principles involved in the successful treatment of gastric dyspepsia. If the indigestion is caused by want of nervous tone, give the stomach only as much food to digest as will maintain strength; if it is caused by alcoholic excess, cut off all wines and spirits; if caused by irregularities in the production and quality of the gastric juice, rest the stomach as much as possible till nature effects her own cure. The doctrine of rest is not sufficiently considered in treating derangements of the stomach. If we have a sore and excoriated skin wound, we take care to rest the part so as to let healthy granulation go on undisturbed. The mucous membrane of the stomach may be considered in acute forms of dyspepsia to be in much the same condition, and its cure would be better accomplished by rest than by anything else. Such rest could be partially obtained by taking predigested and fluid foods. Unfortunately, however, the practice of the dyspeptic is generally the opposite. Finding the appetite fail, and thinking it the most important of physical duties to eat, he tempts appetite and stimulates a fatigued and jaded stomach by highly spiced foods and by dainty dishes, thus often rendering chronic a condition which might have been only temporary. "Why do you come to Carlsbad?" I once asked a visitor who was a well-known diner-out in London society, and who by his air of general well-being did not seem to need a "cure". "Because," was the reply "it enables me to eat what I like for the rest of the year.' This is an example of what I mean by curing dyspepsia by means of resting the stomach. The plentiful ablutions of the mucous membrane, and the rigid abstemiousness of life and diet insisted upon at Carlsbad and other spas, give the stomach the chance and opportunity of curing its dyspepsia by rest.