Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — “Similla Similibus Curantur.” [ARTICLE]

“Similla Similibus Curantur.”

The quantity of pepper, particularly red pepper, that is consumed by natives of tropical countries will be deemed incredible to people who live in more temperate but there is a physiological reason for the use of these sharp condiments. The use of red pepper in the tropics braces up the digestive organs when impaired and relaxed by the great heat. In other words, pepper is nature’stonic against hot weather, and the more liberal use of it in summer time might be beneficial even to the natives of the temperate zones.