Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-08-21

written Dy medical man advising
people TO live entirely on fruits and
nuts. | am not prepared to go so far
for although | look upon fruit as an
excellent food, yet look upon It more
as a 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
us that fruit should be eaten as an aid
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, 3 per cent. of pectose, / per
cent. of maliC and other acids and
per cent. of fesh-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 it's antiscOrbutic action.
1t keeps the body in a 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 GOut, advises his patients to take
oranges, lemons, strawberries. grapes.
apples pears, ct 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 rom these rheumatic
and equity pOisOns.
LAS medicine : lcoli upon fruit as
a most ya'nablc ally AS previously
shown, when the body is in that
brealiing-up cOnditi III 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 VIII use
fruit very much more largely than it
does now in the treatment of every
day ailments. Observations in sCurvy
prove that it CXerts 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
of strawberries day; where these
al Z not bDldludulb DdldIdS, W LltH
contain much iron, are a good substi
tute, Probably of all fruits the apple
stands unrivaled for general purposes
in the households; 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 a large way by giving troops dried
vegetables and fruits that the attack
of scurvy could be warded off. but in
curing scurvy they were nowhere
alongside the fresh ones Still it
teaches that dried fruits should be
used when fresh cannot he obtained. f.