Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1903 — USES OF FRUITS [ARTICLE]

USES OF FRUITS

Often More Useful Than Prescription* of Physician?* Many of our common fruit* are Juat as useful and much nicer than doctors' prescriptions. The apple, for Instance. Not only Is the apple an excellent purifier of the blood, but It Is a jcure for dysentery, and has also the effect of restoring an intoxicated person to sobriety. A diet of stewed apples, eaten thr?e times a day. has worked wonders _ln cases of confirmed drunkenness, giving the patient an absolute distaste for alcohol In any form. The pineapple Is another fruit most valuable in throat affections. Indeed, It has saved many a life of a diphtheretlc patient. The juice squeezed from a ripe pine is the finest thing In the world for cutting the funguslike membrane which coats the throat In diphtheria, and is used in time never fails to cure. After a severe attack of Influenza the throat Is often relaxed and the tonsils painful. An old-fashioned remedy still In use In many parts of the west of England Is a conserve of roses. This is a sort of jam made from the hipa of the common wild rose. It Is not unpleasant in taste and certainly possesses strongly astringent properties. To eat a grape a minute for an hour at a time, and to repeat this performance three or four times a day, eating very little else meantime but dry bread, may seem a monotonous way of spending the time. This treatment works wonders for thin, nervous, anemic people whose digestions have got out of order from worry or overwork. It Is no mere quack prescription, but a form of cure recognized and advised by many well-knewn physicians. Grapes are, perhaps, the most digestible of any fruit in existence. A cordial made from the blackberries Is greatly recommended by the Devonshire country folk as a cure for colic, and many a farmer's wife makes blackberry cordial as regularly as elderberry wine. The latter, heated and mixed with a little cinnamon. Is one of the best preventives known against < chill. The flowers, too, of the elder come in useful. An ointment made by layering them in mutton suet and olive oil is soothing in ease of boils. Nowadays doctors forbid gouty pationts to eat any kind of sweet foods, but recommend them to eat at lehst a dozen walnuts a day. There is no doubt that walnuts are most useful to gouty subjects, or In cases of chronic rheumatism. Swelling goes down and pain decreases.—London Answers.