Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1909 — Concerning Oranges. [ARTICLE]

Concerning Oranges.

An eminent Japanese bacteriologist has shown that the acids of lemons, apples and other frutts—citric acid, malic acid—are capable of destroying all kinds of disease germs. Cholera germs are killed in fifteen minutes by lemon juice or apple juice, and ty phoid fever germs are killed in half an hour by these acids, even when considerably diluted. If you squeeze a lemon into a glass of water containing cholera germs, and let it stand fifteen or twenty minute®, you may drink the water with Impunity, as the germs will be dead; these juices will kill other disease germs. Instead of telling a man to have his stomach washed out, we can now tell him to drink orange juice, which will cleanse the stomach as thoroughly as a stomach tube, provided it be not a case of gastric catarrh. If we have to deal with gastric catarrh, in which there is a large amount of tenacious mucus adhering to the walls of the stomach, a stomach tube to dislodge it Is required, but in ordinary cases of biliousness, foul tongue, bad breath, sick headache, a frtilt diet is a wonderful purifier. >.