Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-21

written by a medical man advising
people to live entirely on fruits and
nuts. l am not prepared to go so far,
for, although / look upon fruit as an
excellent food, yet look upon it more
as necessary adjunct than as per-
feet food of itself At the end of a.
heavy dinner we eat our cooked fruits,
and when we want their digestive. ac-
ton even more developed, we take
them after dinner in their natural, I'M
cooked state as a dessert. In the past
ages instinct has taught men to do
this; today science tells them why
they did it, and this same science tells
to digestion of other foods much more
than it is now.
Cultivated fruits, such as apples,
pears, cherries, strawberries, grapes,
etc, contain on analysis very similar
proportions of the same ingredients,
which are about per cent of grape
sugar, per cent. of pectose, per
cent of malic and other acids and
per cent. of fiesh-forming albumin
oids, with over 80 per cent of water
Digestion depends upon the action of
pepsin in the stomach upon the food,
which is greatly aided by the acids
of the stomach. Fats are digested by
! these acids and the bile from the
/ liver. The acids and ectoes in fruits
peculiarly assist the acids of the stom-
ach.
Another great action of fruit in
the body is its antiscorbutic action.
1t keeps the body in healthy condi-
ton. When out on a long voyage
where fruit is scarce, how one longs
for it, Those who have been without
it for an extended time long for it;
even in their dreams they picture the
fruit their system so badly needs. The
following case will illustrate my
meaning: A ships crew had any
amount of fresh meat, new bread, tea,
coffee, ETC., aboard, but no fruit nor
vegetables. AS days went by the men
grew haggard, breathless and weak
with violent, tearing rheumatic pains
! in the joints. Then the gums grew
spongy, the blood broke through its
veins, and the whole system was de-
moralized and dying In short, they
were dying of scurvy. A fruit ship
passing sent aboard a good supply of
oranges and lemons, which were
greedily eaten by the sufferers Mark
the result: Though they still went
on eating the same food, the addition
of fruit to their diet made all the diff
! ference between life and death In a
/ few days their gums began to heal
the blood became healthy, natural col
or came into their faces, and strength
came to their limbs so lately racked
with pain"
Garrod, the great London authority
on govt, advises his patients to take
oranges, lemons, strawberries. grapes
apples. pears, etc. Tardieu, the great
French authority, maintains that the
salts of potash found so plentifully in
fruits are the chief agents in purify
ing the blood from these rheumatic
and equity poisons.
GAS a medicine | look upon fruit as
a most valuable ally. AS previously
shown, when the body is in that
breaking-up condition known as sour
Wy, the whole medical profession look
upon fruit and fresh vegetables as the
one and only remedy. | believe the
day will come when science win use
fruit very much more largely than il
does now in the treatment of every
day ailments. Observations in scurvy
prove that it exerts a very powerful
influence on the blood. But ''the
blood is the life;" poor blood means
poor spirits, poor strength, poor
breath and poor circulation. Impure
blood means govt, rheumatism, skin
diseases, ricketts, and other troubles
AS it is proved that fruit will purify
and improve the quality of the blood
it must follow that fruit is both food
and medicine combined. In fevers
use grapes and strawberries, giving
them to my patients in small but fire.
quent doses oranges and baked ap-
pies if the others are not obtainable
For rheumatism plenty of lemons are
invaluable. White girls, with miser-
able, pallid compilations want a quart
/
are not obtainable bananas, which
contain much iron. are good substi-
tute. Probably of all fruits the apple
stands unr;valed for general purposes
in the household; either raw or
cooked it can be taken by nearly
everybody, and it contains similar
properties to the other more delicate
fruits. To my mind the pear is more
easily digested than the apple, and
for eating uncooked is superior to It.
Dried fruits are now occupying
more attention than perhaps they have
ever done before. 1t has been proved
in large way by giving troops dried
vegetables and fruits that the attack
fof scurvy could be warded off. but in
curing scurvy they We're nowhere
alongside the fresh ones. Still it
teaches that dried fruits should be
used when fresh cannot be obtained.