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Show GARDEN A MEDICINE CHEST Curative Properties Found In Many of the Ordinary Vegetables. Vege-tables. Every mnn who has n kitchen garden gar-den has n medicine chest In his back yard, although bo probably has not seriously looked upon It as such, remarks re-marks n writer In tho Portland Ore-gonlnn. Ore-gonlnn. In tho onion, for example, ho lias n sulphur oil which gives tho onion Its reputation as a remedy for Insomnia In-somnia nnd which somo physicians hold as a valuable anodyne for "rheumatic" "rheu-matic" pains. Thcro nro certain oils In turnips nnd parsnips that havo npcrlcnt nnd diuretic properties. Thcro Is solnntn In tho potato, nnd spinach contained iron. Cabbage ishlgh-ly ishlgh-ly regnrded as a preventive rmdcor-rectlvo rmdcor-rectlvo of scurvy and scrofula., Tho composition of tho tomato Is chemically chemical-ly so subtlo that it is not yet fully understood, un-derstood, nlthough several active principles prin-ciples havo bocn Isolated and' names havo been given to them. Thus tho man who cats freely of vegetables Is taking medicine without' paying ('f,or a prescription and without being bothered both-ered by tho high cost of! drugs. In tho formal individual the instinctive appetite ap-petite automatically regulates the alee of thtf "dose." " |