Show apples as medicine chemically the tha apple is composed of vegetable fiber albumen sugar gum malic acid gallic acid lime and much nm water ter furthermore the german say that the apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus rug than any other fruit frait or vegetable the phosphorus is admirably adapted for renewing the essential nervous matter lecithin of the brain and spinal chord it is ia perhaps for the same reason rudel rudely y understood that old scandinavian traditions represent the apple as the food of the gods who when they felt themselves ep to be growing feeble and infirm resorted to this fruit for renewing their powers of mind and body medical age I 1 |