Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-21
gaGies' Column.
Fruit in the Dietary.

A recent issue of the Medical Clds-
of fruit, by DIR. Ferdinand Seeger,
that is most suggestive of thought.
He says: cit is an observation not
less important than true. that by at
tending merely to a proper diet
phlegmatic habit may frequently be
changed into a sanguine one, and the
hypochondriac may be so altered as
to become a cheerful and contented
member of society. Experience and
observation show that a too frequent
and excessive use of animal food dis
poses the fluids to putrefaction, and,
in sanguine temperaments especially,
communicates to the mind a degree
of ferocity. Nations subsisting chief
" upon the flesh of animals, like the
Tartars, are, in general, more fierce
than others and the same effect is
manifest in carnivorous animals;
they emit a very disagreable smell,
and both their flesh and milk have an
unpleasant and repelling taste. Even
an infant will refuse the breast when
it's nurse has eaten too much animal
food. Those who eat great quantities
of meat and little bread and vegeta-
bles must necessarily acquire an off
ensive breath. 1t appears, therefore,
to be most suitable and conducive to
health to combine animal with veget-
able food in due proportions. The
proportion of vegetables to meat eat
en- by each person, DR.. Seeger says,
should be two-thirds or three-fourths
vegetables to one-third or one-fourth
meat. DR.. Seeger gives several au-
thorities for the eating of fruit at the
commencement of the meal. He
says: ssThe eating of fruit at the
commencement of a meal, while it
presents bland or congenial materl-
al to the delicate lining of the men,
brane of the alimentary organs, form
ing a welcome precursor to the more
substantial articles, many of which
require protracted energy for their
elaboration into nutriment, at the
same time is, to some extent, safe
guard against the overlooking which
comes from reserving the fruits till
the stomach is already overloaded
with enough, perhaps too much, of
other food. Fruits should be ripe
when eaten on an empty stomach,
and for their laxative effect should be
eaten before anything else. In this
way constipation may, with many in
dividuals, be obviated, especially
when the quantity of other articles of
the meal is within reasonable limits.
Constipation is the foundation of
many diseases, and the cause of las
situde that depletes working force.
This difficulty, DR.. Seeger says, can
be removed by attention to the diet.
Fruit he highly recommends as a supe-
rior regulator, and, in addition, ''ben-
eft will be derived from the use of
corn bread, cracked wheat, oatmeal,
bread of unbolted flour, and such
vegetables as green corn, tomatoes
and celery" Biliousness will also
Weld to careful habits of diet. DR..
Seeger SAYS: IF our bilious friends
would throw aside their liver pills
and study nature while she is in her
most smiling and bounteous mood,
would allow her to tempt them as
Eve tempted old Adam, they would
take to fruit, and, by pleasant, natu-
raj and healthful methods, free them
selves of the 'thick, bilious impure
ties which make them q nuisance to
themselves as we'll as to all around
them. Biliousness is one of those
demons that can be pretty we'll eXer-
cised by proper diet and due amount
of exercise. A gentle diarrhea brought
on by eating ripe fruit in summer
has frequently salutary effect. Ac-
id and astringent fruit, is less hurt
full to the healthy and to children
than is commonly imagined. Instead
of being noxious, as some imagine, in
infiammatory disorders, it is of the
greatest service. Persons of thick
and languid blood can not eat any
thing more conducive to health than
fruit, as it possesses the property of
alternating and putting such blood
in notion The diet is the source
of health and disease, and while it is
in the power of every housewife to
select what shall determine the health
of the family, it is subject that re-
ceives less study and attention than
any other one subject relating to the
family fe.-Christian Union.
OUNCES ounce makes de-
lightful preserve. Pare and core the
fruit: boil in clear water until tender !;
make syrup with pound of sugar