The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-07
DIET FOR CONSERVATIVES.
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT JUL
 CES,
And What They Do for the Blood
 Also the Salts in Beer.


 With regard to the claims of Dr. Russell of New York to have cured eleven consumptive patients. Dr. Josiah Oldfield expressed the view that people should not imagine that they could be absolutely cured by the juices of vege- tables. For number of years" add ed Dr. Oldfield, T have been in charge of a Unitarian hospital at Bromley and our clear experience has been that the right use of fruits and vegetable juices is of the utmost importance in increasing the stamina of the blood corpuscles of the body. have come to leok upon flesh food as largely stimu- lant, and therefore valuable in case Of emergency, like alcohol. On the other hand, a certain number of fruits and vegetables are specially feeding, and therefore essentially nutritious. l put raisins as the first of all foods that l know of, and far superior to grapes, because the sugar has been thoroughly matured and ripened and transformed ready for digestion. In addition to ralsins, another valuable food is raisin syrup, not so-called raisin wine, but non-alcoholic wine made of raisins and a few spices.
 "Of the other fruits, one has to re- member that what is suitable for one climate is not necessarily suitable for another, and that, therefore, what Dr. Russell has found valuable in New York is not necessarily the best for the people in England. After raisins, come apples and pears, and their juices, in the form. of sweet cider, and sweet 1 perry, practically non-alcoholic. Raw l carrots appear to be the best of all vegetable to use, grated, not chopped Watercress is also good, The reason | why cooked vegetables have not the 1 same effect as raw vegetables is largely | owing ito the fact that the water in | which the vegetables have been boiled, and which contains the chief salines oi | the vegetables, has been thrown away. The proper way to cook vegetables, if you want to retain their curative value, l is to retain the water in which they are cooked, or to steam them without water.
 Vegetables themselves for curative purposes must be healthy.In America where they have so much virgin soil | circumstances are different; but here | in England, I look upon V egetables with a great amount of suspicion, be. l cause they are so often grown in un. pleasant surroundings, and as rapidly | as possible to get the maximum o1 time. All the quick growing vegeta, bles especially cabbages and hubbard are to be regarded as dangerous food because their tissues are over-ladnI with inoompletely transformed matter I Vegetables grown under certain condi tiops may be not only curative, bu even q cause of human debility Therefore, a word of warning should bt given in, case people adopt Dr. Rus. sells principles and eat vegetables ir large quantities without troubling tt select them.
 Furthermore, I look upon the Ii. quor. of grains as one of the most i'm. portant causes of the stamina of tht English people-that is to say, the beer of old England. To my mind, it is the salts which are obtained from the bar ley wherein lie the merits of the bev. craze. There are two things which may be considered very valuable ir promoting the growth of the Englisf race--one has been the beer, and the other. the old English dish of "furmen, ty'' made of barley corn. The beei originally drunk was much more of the nature of barley tea than is the beer of to-day. Any one who has been tt the old farmhouse breweries will know the meaning of sweet wort which is really malt tea. It is com
 posed of malt barley put to stew, ant soaked in large quantities, and tht liquor. on being drawn off, is reaIl,