Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1881 — Medical Virtues of the Watermelon. [ARTICLE]

Medical Virtues of the Watermelon.

Watermelon contains about ninety-five per cent, of the purest of water, and a trace of the purest sugar, and nothing has yet been discovered that, furnishes so perfect and speedy a “euro” for summer oomplaint as watermelon, and nothing else. Even when diarrhoea has lias been kept up by continued eating of ordinary food, until the disease tup* become chronic, this delicious beverage ---for it is little more—watermelon, Ukuu freely two or three times a day, has again aru} pgain been known to

work wonders, and to “cure'’ when all the usual remedies had failed. —Food and Health.