The Republican journal., 1911-07-13
publican doctrine, and ! urgently ask
the support of an intelligent. nrooresl
sive organization like this in alignins the
whole Republican party in its sunnort -
Strawberries. as Food and Medicine.

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saw good Strawberries, in your garden tbers
do beseech you, send for some Of then, y
Bishop of Ely
Marry, and will, my lord, with all NV heart
Shakespeare.
Those persons are easily numbered
who disagree with the opinion of DR.
William Butler of Suffolk, England VIII,
stated long ago that doubtless Goo
could have made better berry than the
strawberry, but doubtless God neve,
did!' The saying is found in Walton's
Angler, quoted from DR.. ''Boleter" O,
Butler. 1t made the doctor famous. and
early in this century, the head of the
author was painted upon the signboards
of English inns.
In the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry
VII, under June 80, 1893, a woman
receives Is. Sd. for bringing the kino
cherries and strawberries.
In the time of Henry VIII. Q53O we
read of the king buying polite of straw
berries for 1Od. The polite, in which
Strawberries used to be sold, goes back
to the fifteenth or even the fourteenth
century.
The great philosopher Bacon, in his
Sylvia Sylvarum" Q62O, seems to
prefer the white strawberry to the red.
just as he does the white currant, white
raspberry, and white grape The white,
or rather pink, strawberry is very com
mon in Ireland.
The strawberry and raspberry, the
latter under the name of the hindberrv.
occur in the eleventh-century vocabulary
as herb.
The common word strawberry FRA
garia vesca) is Indigenous in almost all
temperate climates. 1t grows in woods
and thickets, and the fruit is small. but
of delicious flavor The products which
have been obtained by cultivation rank
among the choicest and most tempting
summer fruits, and afford an example Of
one of the greatest triumphs of the
gardener art.
jolly old DR.. Butler would now view
with establishment the large, brilliant
specimens that are produced. The won
der would not be less should he test the
quality of the splendid fruit, and he
might be led to excaim, 30 delicious
sweetness, where hast thou fed" But
we are not disposed to quarrel with the
grower who has enlarged the proportions
at the expense of the saccharine ele-
ment. The Whiteness of the sugar
granules is pleasing contrast to the
color OF the fruit, and the loss to the
palate is a gain to the organs of vision.
as we'll as the sugar trust. The flavor is
dltfused through larger mass, and is
not so pronounced as formerly, but, with
cream, the berries are deectable enough
to render their mastication pleasure.
however so many times the fruit is pre-
sented. While contour, color, and aroma
are unimpaired, the globose receptacles
will be held in high estimation These
are not In their best estate except when
fully ripened upon the vines and eaten
soon after being gathered. Sugar scat
tered over them is destructive to form
and brightness, if the added sweetness
long precedes the serving.
No method of eating strawberries can
surpass that of eating them with cream.
The Spaniards have another noble com
bination - moistening the strawberries
with the juice OF a sweet orange. There
are gastrologers who go further and say
that an addition of orange-peel (by graf
ing the zest with lump of sugar., is an
immense Improvement and that it must
have been in this fashion that the fruit
was served in the banquets of Mount
Ida
A century and half ago the straw
berry had quite a place in the Matera
Medlca. Even IN more recent times it
held some of its earlier prestige as
remedial agent. Abercrombie says:
Physicians concur in placing straw
berries in their small catalogue of pleas
ant remedies They dissolve the tar
tarous demonstrations of the teeth: they
promote perspiration. Persons afflicted
with the govt have found relief from
using them; so have patients in case of
the stone; and Hoffman states that he
has known consumptlve people cured by
them"
The illustrious Cullen (17S9), however,
takes issue with the claim that it is cura-
tive in govt. He says:
eff the large annual sale of straw
berries could preserve from the govt, we
should seldom find the inhabitants of
Edinburgh affected by that disease; but,
though they use that supposed preserva-
tive very largely, we find them as often
and as severely affected with the govt as
the inhabitants of other places who do
not use the same"
Cullen, however, and others who have
disputed the "antigout" power of the
strawberry, fell into the error of 'gener-
aliZing.' The doctor in the Kitchen"
tells me that he has tried the ''straw-
berry cure" in a number of cases of
govt, and, in nearly all, with benefit
and, in some of the cases, with curative
result. In two cases in which | tried the
strawberry cure, three years ago, the
victims have not had twinge since the
use of this pleasant remedy But it
should be said that, in all of these cases,
was very careful in regulating the diet
and habits of the patient.
In ''The Complete English DISPENSE
tory of 1929, we read that this plant
is too well-known to want description;
the leaves are frequently used in garga-
risms for sore mouths, quinsies, and
ulcers of the throat, and the fruit is
moderately cooling and cleansing, chiefly
by urine"
According to the Edinburgh Dis
pensatory'' of 1863, 1.-THE leaves are
somewhat styptic and bitterish; and
hence may be of service in debility and
laxity of the viscera; and immoderate
secretions, or suppression of the natu-
raj excavations, depending thereon: They
are recommended in hemorrhages and
fuxes; and likewise as aperients in sup
preston of urine, distractions of the
viscera, in the jaundice, etc. The fruit
is in general very grateful both to the
palate and stomach; like other fruits of
the dulco- acid kind, they abate heat,