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Show PINEAPPLE AS A CURATIVE. It has long been known that the pineapple Is one of the healthiest of fruits, but its real medicinal medici-nal qualities probably have never been realized. In Hawaii experiments have been made to determine something of these properties. It has been found that the fruit of the pineapple contains a digestive principle closely resembling pepsin in its action, and to this is probably due the beneficial results of the use of the fruit in certain forms of dyspepsia. dyspep-sia. On the casein of milk pineapple juice acts as a digestive in almost the same manner as rennet, ren-net, and the action is also well illustrated by placing plac-ing a thin piece of uncooked beef between two slices of fresh pineapple, where in the course of a few hours its character is completely changed. In diphtheritic sore throat and croup pineapple juice has come to be very largely relied upon in countries where the fruit is common. The false membranes which cause the closing of the throat seem to-be dissolved by the fruit acids and relief is almost immediate. |