QUESTIONS and ANSWERS by H. W. Miller

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 3, 1914

QUESTIONS and ANSWERS

By H. W. Miller

Conducted by H. W. Miller, M. D., Superintendent Washington Sanitarium Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

Questions accompanied by return postage will receive prompt reply by mail. It should be remembered, however, that it is impossible to diagnose or to treat disease at a distance or by mail. All serious conditions require the care of a physician who can examine the case in person.

Such questions as are considered of general interest will be answered in this column; but as, in any case, reply in this column will be delayed, and as the query may not be considered appropriate for this column, correspondents should always inclose postage for reply.

Fruits and Vegetables.—“Why are fruits and vegetables not a good combination? Are subacid fruits, especially the banana, an exception to the rule?”

Of the several explanations why fruits and vegetables do not combine well, none have appealed to the chemical condition of the secretions of different persons, and that, dependent partly on this difference, one person has habitually a certain type of bacterial growth in the intestinal canal, and another person another type. And possibly these different types of bacterial growth,