Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1916 — THE APPLE AS MEDICINE. [ARTICLE]

THE APPLE AS MEDICINE.

A modern scoffer has recently asked whether it would be possible that Eve yielded to the serpent because he told her that apples were good for the complexion. Whether this argument was needed or not, there is no question that it is a true one. Nothing in all our varied and fascinating range of fruits holds quite the same quality as the apple. A raw, ripe apple at its best is digested in 85 minutes, and the malic acid which gives it its distinctive character stimulates the liver, assists digestion and neutralizes much noxious matter which, if not eliminated, produces eruptions of the skin. “They do not satisfy like potatoes," some people, to whom they have been recommended as food, have said, but the starch of the potato, added to the surplus of starch we are always eating, renders it undesirable as an article of too frequent consumption.