The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-05-28
APPLES AS MEDICINE.
Who Eats an Apple Going 70 Bed
win Send the Doctor 70 Beg His
Rwaad

VINO Ehbb an Apple o0lHB 70 Gel
Win Send the Doctor 70 Beg Hi
Bread.
Who Is there among US, says write
in the Detroit Free Press, that would "a
prefer the eating Of an apple 10 the tax
ing pilli Yet the nauseating drug
are daily being swallowed, aud the rosy
checked remedies" 80 grateful anC
palatable, allowed 70 20 into unwhole
some pastry crusts that only further
earthly Ills.
Few seem TO know the real worthof an
uncookcd apple-or roasted one, eth
er, for the matter Of that. Why, they're
medicine delicious TO the taste, whole;
some past belief, and, even though pretty
dear at this particular season Of this
particular year, much cheaper than
drugs. We may safely put a quarters
worth Of apples against quarters
worth Of drugs, and expect more good
AID much more lasting results from the
fruit. The one great trouble arising
from any unnatural purgatives is the re-
action so sure 10 follow, while the doses
provided By nature herself work for the
perfect good Of human kind.
It's veritable nonsense that "apples
are gold In the morning, silver at noon
and lead at night This old saying is
as silly a one rs that the Germans have
given us--that "bad beginning makes
good ending"-neither are true.
Apples are always gold, fguratively
speaking and don't /, who Ikea good
ripe raw apple just before going to bed
at night, especially when I've stayed up
long enough to get \ bit hungry, know
something about theml
For those who use their brains lhe apple
is an especially proper article of diet,
and for nervous people and thoge suffer-
ing from any weakness Of the tpine. for
apples contain more phosphoIpus than
any other known fruit or vegetable, and
this PHOSPHORUS is admirably adapted
for renewing the essential nervous mat
ter Of the brain and spinal cprd. Also
the acids Of the apple a;e ofkignal use
for those persons Of sedenhry habits,
whose livers are sluggish in altion, these
acids serving to eliminate from, the body
noxious matters. which, retained,
would render the brain heavy and dull,
or fetch eruptions TO the sffaee Of the
skin, bring on jaundice or IKE troubles.
When eating meats richly cooked one
should accompany such fishes with
plenty Of apple sauce, as twill neutral.
re any excess of chalky matter engend-
cred by eating too much nj lat. For sour
stomach, too, the apple should be eaten,
as its salts and Juices are converted into
alkaline carbonates, which tend TO coun-
teract acidity.
Chemically the apple il composed Of
vegetable fiber, albume1 sugar, gum,
malic acid chlorophyll, gallioacid, lime
and much water; yet, fol all this rather
impossible lot of ingredients, good
ripe raw apple is one Of the easiest OF al
vegetable substances witt which the too
often abused stomach lAs TO d2l for,
after it has been catAp, thu whole
process Of digestion Is eN2acr thin
the Incredibly short .aQac hty-6Vcc
minVtess time ~ -.
R.geted appleg e. beIT 81 6nl uses,
the most important 0fN hem being the
use to which they are putin our hospitals
ia the making Of poultides for the relief
OF cure ol lnlhulcu eyes. COiilc nurses
prefer a raw apple, simple rotten, applied
without any intervening substance to the
eye. Others peel the fruit rather thickly
and from the pceling cut an oval piece,
and after roasting ituntil quite soft bind
it upon the eye, the inside Of the peel
ing touching the inflained part. For a
sty upon the eyelid nothing is more
soothing than TN apple poultice.
Throw away your pill boxes and fill
up the apple basket Trade your blue
mass, your black bitter balls, your little
gray horrors for those roy spheres
ripened in the fresh dewy nights and
under warm summer suns-the dark
crimson of the little "wine saps,n the
yellow Of the bell flower, the green Of
the "pippin," the rusty coat of the
'russet, and all the other toothsome
dainties of the orchard for the loathsome
pellets from which nature causes us to
turn instinctively.
IL is said that he or she who eats APP
plies daily cannot be i'll nor do they age
rapidly; nor do they have a chance to
grow biious-and rs natural sequence,
irritable and unbearable. And believe
that as false as the old saying about
apples being bad at night the new saying
concerning them is true aud that
Who eats an apple when going to bed
Will send the doctor to beg his bread