St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-19
The Virtues Of Apples.
THEIR MEDICINAL VALUE AND SOME OF
THE TROI BLRs WHICH THEY AID.

III LIN MEDIClNAL VALUE AND SOME OF
THE TRol BLRs WHICH THEY AID.
Chemically the apple is composed of
vegetable fiber, albumen, sugar, gum,
chlorophyll, malic acid, gallo acid, lime
and much water. Furthermore, the Ger
man analysts say that the apple contains
larger percentage of phosphorus than any
other fruit or vegetable. This phosphorus
is admirable adapted for renewing the es-
sential nervous matter, lethicin, of the
brain and spinal cord. 1t is, perhaps, for
the same reason, rudely understood, that
old Scandinavian traditions represent the
apple as the food of the gods, who, when
they felt themselves to be growing feeble
and infrm, resorted to this fruit for re-
newing their powers of mind and body.
Also, the acids of the apple are of signal
use for men of sedentary habits, whose
livers are sluggish in action these acids
serving to eliminate from the body noxious
the brain heavy and dull, or bring about
jaundice or skin eruptions and other allied
troubles.
Some such an experience must have led
to our custom of taking apple sauce with
The malic acid of ripe apples, either raw
chalky matter eneendered by eating too
much meat. 1t is also the fact that such
fresh fruits as the apple, the pear and the
plum, when taken ri pc and without sugar,
diminish acidity in the stomach rather
than provoke it. Their vegetable salts
and juices are converted into alkaline CAY
Donates, which tend to counteract acdity
A good, ripe, raw apple is one of the
easiest of vegetable substances for the
stomach to deal with, the whole process
of it's digestion being completed in eighty
five minutes. Gerard found that the
"pulps of roasted apples mixed in q WINE
quart of faire water, and labored together
until it comes to be as apples and ale
which we call ambswool-never faileth in
certain diseases of the raines, which my
self hath often proved, and gained thereby
both crowns and credit" s'The pairing of
an apple, cut somewhat thick, and the in
side whereof is laid to hot, burning or
running eyes at night, when the party
goes to bed, and is tied or bound to the
same, doth help in the trouble very speed
lily, and contrary to expectation an excel
lent secret"
A poultice made of rotten apples is of
very common use in Lincolnshire for the
cure of weak or rheumatic eyes. Like
wise in the Hotel des Invalides at Paris,
an apple poultice is used commonly for in
famed eyes, the apple being roasted and
it's pulp applied over the eyes without any
intervening substance. Long ago it was
said apples are easily and speedily digested,
and modern maxim teaches thai "If you
eat an apple going 10 bed, the doctor then
will beg his bread. "-London Hospital.
Before we take up the collection this
morning" remarked the good pastor as he
looked mildly over the congregation, 81
wish to say that we have in the church
treasury already two quarts of nickles that
appear to have been punched through and
afterwards plugged with lead. These
coins, am informed. will not buy stamps,
groceries or fuel, and conductors on street
cars refuse to take them. The choir will
sing, % land of rest, for thee l sigh. ~
Chicago Tribune.