I have tried all plans and pursue Plan "A" in the winter, which is as follows : In the morning, seven o'clock, the juice, only, of an orange followed in a few minutes by a cup of hot water to which a pinch of salt is added. One hour after this, that is about eight o'clock, a regular and substantial breakfast follows. At twelve o'clock a glass of fluid; at four or five o'clock a regular dinner; at nine o'clock a glass of fluid. The fluid is usually hot water, but is sometimes varied for fruit juice, or a teaspoonful, or two, of malted nuts taken in a teacupful of hot water. An extemporaneous malted milk can be quickly made by grating one or two Brazil nuts into a teacup, adding a little hot water sufficient to form a paste, stirring well and filling the, cup with hot water. Add a pinch of salt and you have a delicious and nourishing off-hand drink, specially appetizing before going to bed.

In the summer season I follow Plan "B" or the "no breakfast" plan, the meals taken at eleven in the morning and six or seven in the evening.

While I usually follow the two-meal plan as first given, Plan "A," because of its greater convenience from a business point of view, yet if I were to follow my natural inclination the modified no-breakfast plan, or French system, of two meals a day would be my preference, with regular times for drinking, three times a day. This would mean drinking in the morning immediately upon rising, a moderate luncheon at noon or earlier, with a more substantial meal in the evening. Drinking at four in the afternoon and nine in the evening.

Those persons who live on fruits exclusively should eat three or four times a day. In many instances an individual's occupation is such that no stereotyped plan will answer. In these cases it will require planning to cover the difficulties. It is just in such cases that natural or raw diet helps one out beautifully. No waiting at restaurants, no fire, no cooking. Everything ready at a minute's notice.

It is possible for many persons to take a clear soup in small quantity, say 4 to 8 ounces, at the very beginning of a meal, which is readily absorbed by those of vigorous digestion, and the same may be said of a glass of water, though not of milk; or to drink say half a glass of water, tea, or coffee, at the end of a meal with no apparent derangement of the digestion, but the safest way is for the dyspeptic to dispense with them. Just as we have a time for eating, so is it advisable, though not strictly necessary, to have a time for drinking. To this end those who adopt the two-meal plan a day, may also adopt, with advantage, the plan of drinking say three times a day. Food simplicity is of paramount importance. In this way are avoided fermentations and other digestive disturbances, usually incidental to those cases where the food is a mixture of two or three different classes of food, as, for example, bread and butter, meat, vegetables, fruits, pastry, etc.

Dyspeptics cannot digest several articles at the same time, because the enfeebled stomach is unable to make gastric juice suited to the mixed foods.

There may be no difficulty whatever in the digestion of a single, simple article of food, if the article selected is adapted to the patient's condition; that is, a patient might not be able to digest bread, meat and milk, but might be able, without difficulty, to digest bread or milk. A stomach may, by careful training, be rendered capable of digesting at first single, simple articles, and later simple combinations.