The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-26

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CREAM OF TARTAR-(As home
remedy 1t seems to be a fact that
autotoxemia, or poisoning by fer
raent generated within the persons
own body, is one of the most prolific
causes of sickness that can be named.
When the alimentary canal, from the
mouth or intake openings to the out
let's, is clean,r healthy and free from
fermentation, no disease germ that
might find Judgement in the food
could cause any damage, but when
the waste or fecal matter is allowed
to accumulate in the lower bowel and
is not evacuated fully and freely at
least once and preferably twice each
day, trouble begins, usually starting
with a cold
There is a vast difference between
digestion and fermentation. When GER
tain kinds of food are mixed together
and put into q warm receptacle, fer
mentation will take place very quick
~, even though there be present
powerful antiseptic like the saliva and
hydrochloric acid of the gastric juices.
1t is, therefore, Of tremendous. impor
lance in these days of radical changes
in our diet, that we know at least a
little about food combinations.
In the meantime, however, and
while the people generally are find
ing out by the painful process of suf-
fering, how to eat, we must be pre-
pared to courteract the effect of bad
food combinations through easy and
harmless methods of eliminating the
offending matter from the alimentary
canal.
incidentally, I might suggest right
here that it is much better to make
each meal as simple as possible. The
fewer kinds of food eaten at meal,
the less likelihood of bad combina
tions. People who suffer with gas at
right would do we'll to eat nothing but
stale bread. and milk or rice and milk
for supper. Now, that is merely a
hint Follow up by experimenting for
yourself.
Now let us again draw on the pages
of the Home Health Club book, Vol.
5, and see what it has to say about
cream of tartar:
Cream of tartar is so we'll known
to all of my readers that a description
of it's appearance is unnecessary, but a
brief history of how it was originally
obtained will be of interest and value.
The various names by which it is
known to science, aside from the COM
mon one of cream of tartar, are crys-
tails of tartar, supertartrate of potash,
or potassae supertartras. All of these
long, hard names, however, do not in
the least impair the value of the rem
edy."
1.-THE casks in which some kinds of
wine are kept become gradually in
crusted with a hard, saline substance,
tInged with a coloring matter of the
wine. This substance was for many
years known by the name of tartar.
When it is purified by various pro-
Cesses, such as reduction to a solution
then filtration, and capitalization, II
becomes the common cream of tartar
1t is used incidentally as a refrigerant,
laxative, and diuretic. Small doses OF
it in solution form a very pleasing
and cooling drink in febrile diseases
and excite urinary secretions. Many
prefer to take it in lemonade, for by
SO doing it becomes more pleasant to
the taste, and the value of it's medicin-
al properties are increased. Large
doses of it cause profuse watery dis
charge from the bowels, and for that
reason it is very valuable in cases OF
dropsy. Used in connection with dwarf
elder extract it becomes still more
beneficial in such cases."
when added to the resinous pur-
gatives it renders them better suited
to inflammatory cases, as in the case
of compound powder of jalop ant
- tAA &,
the future Combined with sulphur i
is a popular remedy in many form!
of skin disease. It's use and value il
cooking is known to almost ever,
housewife in the land"
Now it is on account of that las
paragraph that thought you ought tt
know about cream of tartar. I fine
that through the changes of diet tina
are going on at present and are bounC
to continue, many cases of so-callet
"qettle rash,' "hives," and other ski
eruptions and itching conditions ar
prevalent, and for all cases of thi
kind, suggest a teaspoonful of cream
of tartar in a tumblerful of cold wa
ter the first thing after arising in tn
morning.
I find also, that many people de
pend largely nowadays upon m1nera
oil for relief in constipation and the
use it quite regularly and some kee
increasing the dose. Now, if you wi
just take the teaspoonful of cream Q
tartar in a tumblerful of cold waite
before breakfast, about three or fou
times each week, you will not onl
feel much better but you can reduc
the quantity of oil taken and get bet