Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — APPLES AS MEDICINE. [ARTICLE]

APPLES AS MEDICINE.

TUB Fruit Gr**tly Benefit* the Syetem in Many Weye. Chemically, the apple is composed of vegetable fiber, albumen, sugar, gum, chlorophyll, malic acid, gallic acid, lime and much water. Furthermore, the apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable. This phosphorus k admirably adapted for renewing the essential nervous matter, lethicin, of the brain and 6pinal cord. It is perhaps for the same reason, rudely understood, that old Scandinavian traditions represent the apple as the food of the gods, who, when they felt themselves to be growing feeble and infirm, resorted to this fruit for Renewing their powers of mind and body. Also the acids of the apple are of great use for men of sedentary habits, whose livers are sluggish in action, these acids serving to eliminate from the body noxious matters, which if retained would make the brain heavy and dull, or bring about jaundice or skin eruptions and other allied troubles. Some such experience must have led to our custom of taking apple sauce with roast pork, rich goose, and like dishes. The malic acid of ripe apples, either raw or cooked, will neutralize any excess of chalky matter engendered by eating too much meat. It is also a fact that such fresh fruits a 6 the apple, the pear and the plum, when taken ripe, and without sugar, diminish acidity in the stomach, rather than provoke it. Their vegetable salts and juices are converted into alkaline carbonates, which tend to counteract acidity. A ripe, raw apple is one of the easiest vegetable substances for the stomach j to deal with, the whole process of the digestion being completed in 85 minutes. Gerard found thnt the “pulpe of roasted apples mixed in a wine quart of faire water, and labored together until it comes to be as apples end ale—which we call lambeswool—never faileth in certain diseases of the raines, which myself hath often proved, and gained thereby both crownes and credit.” “The paring of an apple, cut somewhat thick, and the inside whereof is laid to hot,.burning, or running eyes at night, when the party goes to bed, and is tied or bound to the same, doth help the trouble very speedily; and contrary to expectation —an excellent secret.” —Familv Doctor. *,