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Show APPLES AS MEDICINE. Chemically, the apple is composed compos-ed of vegetable liber, albumen, sugar, gum, ehlorophyl, malic acid, gallic acid, lime and much water. Furthermore, the German analysts say that ths apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable. The phosphorus phos-phorus is admirably adapted for renewing the essential nervous matter, lecithin, of the brain and spinal cord. It is. perhaps, for the same reason, rudely understood that old Scandinavian t rail it ions represent the apple the food of the god, who, when-th.-y felt themselves themsel-ves to ho growing tVebl'.' and infirm, in-firm, resorted to (his fruit, for renewing re-newing (heir powers of mind and body. Also, the acids of the apple are a signal use for men of sedentary seden-tary habits, whose livers are slug- gisb in action, those acids serving ! to eliminate from the body noxious j matters, which, if retained, would j make the brain heavy and dull, or ; hring akint jauud'eo or skin eruptions erupt-ions and other allied troubles. Some such an experience must have led to our. custom of inking apple sauce with roast pork, rich goose, and like dishes. The malic acid of ripe apples, cither raw or cooked, will neutralize any excels of chalky matter engendered by .eating too much meat. It is also i the fact that such fresh fruit- as , the apple, the pear and the plum, 1 when taken ripe and without sugar, i diminish acidity in tho stomach. rather than provoke it. Their ' vegetable sauces and juices are converted into alkaline carbonates, i which tend toc-uintoraet acidity. Southern Clinic. |