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Show Tropic Residents Find Many Uses for Nutmeg The nutmeg tree is one of the most useful trees in the tropic forests. An ordinary tree will yield from 1,000 to 10,000 nuts In a year. All parts of the fruit are in demand for culinary purposes, pur-poses, Bays the Family Herald. In Singapore the natives salt the husks, and In drinking saloons they are supplied sup-plied for the purpose of creating thirst. A delicious preserve is also prepared from the husks. The nutmeg is employed In medicine as a carminative stimulant, and fat from the nut the so-called nutmeg butter is used as an application for rheumatism. It contains from 3 to 8 per cent of a volatile oil, and the substance sub-stance myristicln, which possesses narcotic nar-cotic properties. Cases of poisoning as a result of chewing nutmegs have been recorded a single nutmeg seriously seri-ously affecting the cerebral functions of man. |