Show POTATO JUICE AS MEDICINE london scientist gives out a new idea which he claims to have discovered again science comes to the support of old elves ives medicine everybody who has lived in the country knows that a alice slice of potato Is the sovereigns st thing for a wound a bite or a bruise or evon that dread malady of the farmer rheumatism and now the london lancet pub publishes liphes an article advocating from the results of some years experience peri ence the introduction of potato juice into medical practice the author dr howard honard of clapham squeezes the juice out of raw potatoes by hydra hydraulic 11 pressure evaporates off a fifth of the water and adds a little glycerin he lie finds find sits its application to inflamed joints gives prompt bellet from pain and rapid abs absorption sorption of flu fluid ad he ile also uses it hot for gout in the toe if now any doctor calls it superstitious to tol follow the good old custom of mashing up a raw potato and binding it on or a beesting beo ben sting or rheumatic limb he may be respectfully referred to the lancet lant very likely he himself will in a few years be writing ext solan alq 1 on 31 a prescription blank and the druggist will charge a n dollar for it allut so far science has afforded no confirmation of the popular belief that carrying a potato around in the pocket docket will cure rheumatism 4 |