The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-19
Medical Care
BY LOGAN CLENDENING. M. =

the mother, I know that I n e
cause Of this child's colo is eating
apples and I know 1t sounds queer
to you for me to tell him to eat
apples. Yet I want you to fix the
apples in a certain particular way.
Take a good Jonathan apple
and pare it, and then take a spoon
and scrape around and around I'm.
til you get q nice mush, and then
feed it to our little friend here 4
small amount at a time in the
course Of the next hour or two.
An Effective Cure
II have been doing this for years
and it is only recently that / find
myself in fashion and having some
authority behind me Some Euro.
pean scientists began to use raw
apple pulp and apple powder in
different kinds Of intestinal dis
orders, including summer COM
plant, in infants and children sew
era1 years ago. I do not really be-
lieve that this child's diarrhea
comes from eating apples. 1t is
probably an injection, but at any
rate the apple will do it good,
what ever is the matter.
1T appears there is something in
apple fiber that is called 'pectin'
that is supposed to do the work.
Don't ask me too much about pic
tin because ! don't understand it
myself although I have read all
the scientific literature on the SUBJ
ject. AL that I got out Of the last
I read was that there were
1000 cases Of diarrhea Of all kinds
studied and SO per cent Of them
to the use Of scraped
raw apple pulp.
you can give as much rs two
heapins teaspoonfuls Of this to the
baby with prospects Of benefit, If
you spread the dosage out over 4
Of hours. For older people
1t is best to Withhold all food for
three or four days, except for a
glass Of water containing scraped
at three or four hour inter.
walls.
Soft Diet
when this baby begins to get
don't feed any solid food
for three or four days; give nothing
but custards and egg. 1 should
classify raw milk as a solid food:
It becomes solid as soon as it gets
the stomach.
If it is any comfort to you, you
may also know that this raw apple
pulp contains Vitamen A and that
is supposed to have some bene.
ficial action also.
Il understand that you can get
tried apple powder now at the
1rug store but I see no reason for
going to that trouble and expense
when you a take a nice raw ap-
sic yourself and il you scrape it in
'front.' Of the baby, it will probably
his appetite for it and the
,ery smell will make him feel bet
er right away"
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
C. E. Ms there more suffer.
ng from heat today than back in
he horse and buggy days?"
Answer-Certainly not. With
he use of electric fans, air con-
littoning and the availability Of the
automobile to carry people to the
;eashore and lakeside, our position
S far better than Jul ancestors in
he horse and buggy days in the
States. As a matter Of fact,
tatistics show that heat prostra.
ions have been reduced in the last
about 50 per cent over the
'eriod Of twenty or thirty years
go.
B. R.: please tell me how to
btain Vitamin E other than in
7heat germ oil and green vege.
I am under the impression
hat 1t can be had in concentrated
Answer: It has recently been iso-
ated in concentrated form but the
recess is very expensive and the
roduct correspondingly expensive.
t can be obtained when a patient
nth a rare form of paralysis needs
!. but it is not necessary for the
verage person to obtain it in this
,ay because in an average diet
here Is plenty of Vitamin E to :
AXE care of the needs. AZ
Lands Safely