Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1917 — The Garden a Medicine Chest. [ARTICLE]

The Garden a Medicine Chest.

Every man who has a kitchen garden has a medicine chest in his back yard, although he probably has not seriously looked upon it as such. In the onion, for example, he has a sulphur oil which gives the onion its reputation as a remedy for Insomnia and which some physicians hold is avaluable anodyne for “rheumatic” pains. ’ There are certain oils In turnips and parsnips that have aperient and diuretic properties. There is solanin in the potato, and spinacij contains iron. Cabbage 1? highly regarded as a preventive and corrective of scurvv and scrofula. T'Fip comoosiw tion of the tomato is chemically so subtie that It is not yet fully understood, although several active principles have been Isolated and names have been given to them. Thus the man who eats freely of vegetables is taking medicine without paying for a prescription and without being bothered by the high cost of drugs. In the normal individual the instinctive appetite automatically regulates the size of the “dose.”—Portland Oregonian.