“Take care that not too much fruit is eaten another time.”
“But in the meantime the oxalic acid already formed must be neutralised at once.”
“No, no! It would be a pity to do that. Oxalic acid is the latest fashion. What would your patients do without it? And what would you do without your patients?”
“It must be neutralised at once. It can only be neutralised at the cost of abstracting lime from the system. Result: oxalate of lime, forming calculus, or ‘stone,’ which you don't want, and tissues depleted of lime which you do want.”
“So you get your patients after all. In fact, having ‘neutralised their oxalic acid’ to escape you, they come back to you with two diseases instead of one. It seems to me you are a very profitable investment, Mr Pseudo-Science.”
“Really, Mr Taste, you would not, I presume, have me suppress the truth simply because it happens to be profitable?”
“But is it the truth? What proof have you?”
“I presume you are ignorant of the fact that animals have died with all the symptoms of oxalic acid poisoning, simply through taking too much sugar.”
“What kind of animals? You chose such as are used to taking shop sugar as part of their ordinary food, of course?”
“Well—no; not in that form. The subjects of the experiment were rabbits.”