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Some GnstrOnOmic Hints OF Timely In-
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IFrom the British Medical Journal.l
the food and drink taken in warm wealth
er. There is then less work to be done,
less waste OF tissue, less need of the pre-
eminently muscle-forming and heat-pro.
ducing substances meat and bread and
fruit, as being both palatable and easily
obtainable, is much in use. Its advan-
change of diet, light and wholesome if
well chosen, and n palatable tonic and
stimulant OF digestion with aperient pro-
porties. There are few who cannot en-
JOY it in one form or another. For diabe-
ties, the only least desirable kinds, as GER
tain nuts and almonds, are available, all
Others, as containing sugar, being forbid
den. Sufferers from acid dyspepsia must
ton to the least irritating-a few straw
dysentary preclude the use of all fruit
On the other hand, for constipated per-
SONS it Is sometimes the only reliable
remedy which they can use continuously
with comfort it is also of benefit in re-
nal diseases, by its action on the bowel
Atomic persons generally take it well, and
feel the better for its digestive property.
Those in normal health may eat almost
any ripe fruit. The bland varieties are
the most wholesome and nutritious
strawberries, apples, pears, grapes, and
gooseberri0s. The last named, however,
with currants and raspberries, are less
wholesome than the others. Stone fruits
are apt to disagree with the stomach but
the more watery, as peaches and large
plums, are better than the smaller and
drier, as apricots and damsons. The
pulp of oranges renders them heavy.
Among other foreign fruits, bananas are
wholesome. Dried fruits, and the skin
of fruits in general, are indigestible
Nuts, the edible part of which is really
the seed contains much albumen and
some fat in condensed form, and ART
particularly difficult of digestion. Frui
may be taken with meal or on an empty
, stomach. In the former case it promote!
digestion by its gently irritating effect OIL
, the mucous membrane of the stomach
and intestine. Ii an aperient effect b,
, desired it had better be taken i'll the morn
! ing before breakfast or between meals. 4
, succulent and pleasantly acid variety i
r best for both of these purposes, while j
: is also food. The quantity of frui
I which should be taken depends on tn
7 kind. If it belong to the bland nutri
tious class, healthy person may no'
p and then partake Of it MS freely MS OF an.
4 other wholesome food; but he will gai
~ most benefit If he take only little, an,
take it regularly. The same may be SAT
of the invalid with whom fruit agrees
Cooking removes mach Of the acidit
x from crude fruit and renders it lighter a
well as more palatable. SO treated, it i
productive OF good and no harm ; but
IT is fundamental principle that whateve
n fruit is eaten uncooked must be full
le ripe, and not overripe. This may soun
70 trite, and, indeed, the principle is CON
10 monty admitted but not, it would seen
~ ~ by all, for we still find people, and not
"a few, who will themselves deliberatel
,s take, and worse, will give to their chilt
,e ren, green gooseberries, green apples
Dr. ETC., the very hardness of which, apaI
G. from their acid pungency, suggest the III
It fitness for digestion. Such people use d
cs food an acid irritant poison, whose nece
IN sary action is to cause excessive intestine
X secretion, with more or less Of inilammi
III ton. Hence arises diarrhea. On I'll
OF other hand, fruit which is overripe,
st which fermentation has begun, is a FRI
quent cause of this disorder and equal
9, to be avoided, and perhaps also more di
IN ficult to avoid because the insidious b.
J, ginning of decay is not easily recognizes
~ ~ 1t should never be forgotten by any wi
o, ',, incline to follow the season in their fee
us ue ing, that the want of such precautions
nj nj the above may produce that dysinter
" form OF diarrhea, "British cholera
sc which is occasionally as rapidly fatal
the more dreaded Asiatic type of that di
an ease.