Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-07-22
Fruit For Fond

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One of the common diseases of children
is worms in the bowels. If child's
digestion becomes impaired, and the
gartric juices become weakened or de-
fective in quantity by over eating or bad
food, the whole alimentary canal becomes
c,ogged up and filthy, and furnishes a
nest for such worms as will breed there.
In this weakened condition of the sys-
TEN, they cannot be destroyed by the
process of digestion, and hence great
harm comes from them. Now, it is an
interesting fact that fresh, ripe fruit. is
the best preventive for this state ofthings.
DR.. Benjamin Rush pointed this out
hundred years ago. He made series of
experiments on earth worms, which he
regarded as more nearly allied to those
that infest the bowels of children than
any Other, with a vew to test their power
of retaining life under the influence of
various substances that might be used
'as worm medicines. The results proved
that worms. often live longer in those
substances known as poisonous than in
some of the most harmless article of
food. For instance, in watery solutions
of opium they lived eleven minutes in
infusions of pink root ,thirty-three min
utes; in claret wine, ten minutes but in
minutes ;blaek cherries, in five minutes:
red eurrants, in three minutes; goose
berries, in four minutes; whortleberries,
in seven minutes; and raspberries. in
five minutes. ~ -
From these experiments DIR. Rush
argued that fresh ripe fruits, of which
children are very fond, are the most
speedy and effectnal poisons for worms.
In practice this theory has proved to be
correct. 'l-4e r - -
If you eat aDd,drink hot and exciting
materials the blood becomes infiamed.
the nerves exasperated, and the brain
sends out thoughts-that are base and
mean. five would do away with those
foods that only influence the passions,
and substitute mere fruit in their place.
we would need less restraint on wrong
doers, for our heads would be clearer.
our blood cooler, our nerves steadier. our
Impulses more subject to reason, and life
would be a hundred per cent. truer. and
better than il iste-day.1f FTfSg
We have'only to read the travels of
almost any of our great explorers to
learn that fruits are often the only medi-
cine that will efectually restore health.
Dr.. Ohm Ross, in his expedition to the
Northwest many years ago, gives an ac-
counb Vi uoW he cureQ his men OF
loatbsome disease by simply feeding
them on wild raspberries, found growing
in all offour Northwestern
States and territories
( We should be careful, however, not to
jump at conclusions. A very bad case
of dyspepsia has been known to be cured
by eating two slice- of raw onion every
day before dinEe:. But because it cured
one person is no proof that it will cure
another. Peacheshave been known to
bring on erysipelas. Consequently each
person must determine what is best for |
himself individually 4L-'i--t7t
FOUR GOOD HABITS.-There are four
good habits wise and good man earn
estly recommended in his counsel, and
also by his own example, and which he
considered essentially necessary for the |
management of temporal concerns.-i
These are Punctuality, Accuracy,
and Dispatch. Without the |
hrst OF these, time is wasted; without
he second, mistakes of the most hurt
ful to our own credit and interest, and
thatof others, may be committed; with
cut the third, nothing can be well done;
and without the fourth, opportunities of
great advantage are lost which it is i'm
possible TO recall. ,- l.-