The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-06-24

duce, but is most efectual in averting
disease. I am sure the doctors have
been honest in the opinions they have
held on this subiecu, and that they
thought they were subserving the pub
lie good incroating and maintaining this
prejudice against these choice gifts Of
the Creator, but, assuredly, if they were
deliberately setting about some scheme
for multiplying the number of their pa
appearance, and this season again, ow-
ing to the same scarcity of fresh vegeta-
bles, some cases have been reported
It hardly admits Of o doubt that what
has been said of scurvy is equally true
of numerous other complaints which
flesh has seemed the unhappy "heir to,
and that many Of our disorders, now
deemed inevitable, will prove to be
quite under the control of these prod
ucts of the earth for which the craving
Of tho human appetite is most intense
and universal The season of fruit is
at hand, and let us be thankful that the
precious boon promises to be abundant
Let all who can obtain IL, partake of it
freely, not as a temporary qualification
merely but as promotive of digestion
and sound health and if all cannot
indulge In the delicacies which come
earliest, let the little ones have the first
share. Their young palates relish the
luscious things most koenly, and their
growing, tender frames arc most in need
Of the materials which acid fruits sup
ply. Our fruit growers are among our
tients, they could not easily devise a
surer one than to discounteuance the
cultivation and general use of fruits
And we are glad to perceive that such is
coming to be the general conviction Of
those from whom we are accustomed to
receive opinion on all matters relating
to health. Ii is now universally known
that scurvy-once the dreaded scourge
Of seamen-is entirely under the con-
troll Of regimen, and that nothing is
easier than to prevent it by fruits and
fresh vegetables. Sailors now circum-
navigate the globe without any fear of a
malady in which medicine is unavailing,
and which, before the introduction of
vegetable acids and the potato into their
bills Of fare, swept off crew after crew
in their longer voyages. 1t is not so
generally understood that people on
land have suffered in the last few years,
and are suffering still, here in our own
plentiful Kentucky, with this same dis
ease for the want of these acids and sue
culent vegetables. In 1858, after the
failure of the potato crop, scurvy was a
rather prevalent disease in Louisville,
but so unwonted that the physicians, it
is said, failed to recognize it on its first
true public benofactors. Every man
who plants an orchard is contributing
to the public health We want more
fruit much more than is now produced.
1t is a great misfortune to the commu-
nifty that Strawberries are not cultivated
in greater profusion--the berry which
comes first to regale the palled appetite
in Spring-the fruit Of which the de-
vout old English divine said, that
"doubtless God could have made a bet
ter berry than the strawberry, but doubt
less God never did" Where one acre
is now planted in Strawberries there
ought to be five. They ought to be
brought within the reach, not only Of
humble mechanics, but of every day la
borer. But this is not the time to urge
the cultivation of fruits; the object of
these desultory remarks is to remind
your readers that the period is approach
ing when they are to avail themselves
of that greatest of improvements made
in modern times in the culinary art
the preservation of fresh fruits. Let
no housekeeper neglect the opportunity,
remembering that in providing an am
pie supply of these luzuries they are
taking the best steps for preserving the
health Of their families.--[Iiy. Farm.
Jour.