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Show VIRTUES OF THE PINEAPPLE Veritable Medicine Is This Dellcloui Fruit When Fresh Its Value as a Digestive. Presh pineapple Juice has great "lue ns a digestive. A small amount will digest a considerable plecu of steak or any other animal tissue. Dolling, Doll-ing, however, seems to kill the enzymes enzy-mes In the pineapple, so that after canning It loses Its digestive power. The peculiar property of pineapple Juice makes It of valuo In many ways For Instance, In diphtheria It Is used as a gargle, and the diphtheria membrane mem-brane disappears like magic at Its touch. It seems to have tho power sf picking out all non-living animal tissues nnd rapidly digesting them, leaving all the living tissues. In cases of quinsy, pineapple Juice digests all poisonous tissue, often giving quick relief. Sometimes It Is not best to Incise or lance a boll, and the yellow cap mny often remain upon tho boll without opening, holding back the pus. The ippllcatlon of pineapple Juice lnvarl-tbly lnvarl-tbly establishes free drainage within i short time. For administration In the stomach, pineapple acts, adds tho Family Doctor, Doc-tor, as a preventive rather than a cure. It cannot quickly correct an scute attaqk of Indigestion, though It may prevent an attack. 4 nt |