Show fruits as food and medicine of all the fruits with which wo we are blessed the peach is the most delicious aud and digestible there is nothing more palatable wholesome and medicinal than good ripe peaches they should be ripe but not overripe over ripe and half rotten and of thia this kind they may make a part of either inea meal 1 or beraten bp eaten between meals but it is better to make them part of it is a mia laken leiea that no fruit should be eaten at breakfast it would be far better if mir people would eat less bacon and grease at breakfast and moro more fruit in the morning there is an acrid adrid state of the secretions and bothin no nothing thin is eo to well calculated to correct this as cooling sub acid fruits such ns as peaches apples etc mos most t of us have been taught that eating fruit before break breakfast ft is highly dangerous how the idea originated I 1 do not know but it it ia is certainly a great error contrary to both reason and facts the apple ia jj one of the best of fruits baked or stewed applet will generally agree with aho moat delicate saoul stoul stomach and arc an excell excellent pt in many cases of sickness green 0 or r hal tripe apples stewed and sweetened are p pleasant beasant to the taste cooling nourishing and I 1 laxative axa tive far super pir in in many cases to tho the abominable doses of salts and oil usually given in fever and other disease diseases haw itaw apples and dried apples stewed arp better for constipation than liver pills oranges ard very abt acceptable eatable ep table to most abbs ry having all the advantages of the ibel acid alluded to but the dranga juice alone should be taken rejecting the pulp the same may be said of lemons pomegranates and all thai that class blass lemonade is tha best drink in fevers and when thickened with su garis better than syrup of equilla and other in in many case A of or cough tomatoes act on the liver and bowels and are much more pleasant and safe than blue mass mam and liver regulators the juice should bo be used alone rejecting relec tIn g the aki skins ns the small smalls s seeded d fruits such ha as blace blackberries figs raspberries rasp berries currants and strawberries may bo be classed among the best foods and medicines the sugar in them ig is nutritious the acid is ia coaling and und purifying and the seeds are laxative we would be much the gainers if wo we would look more to our orchards and gardens for our out medicines and less to tj our drugstores drug stores to cure fever or act on the kidneys no febrifuge or diuretic dia is superior to watermelon which may with very few excel til thins fris jio taken in and health in almost unlimited quantities not only without injury but with positive benefit berie fit but in using them the water irater should be taken excluding the pulp and the melon should bo be fresh and ripe but not overripe over ripe and stale halls journal of Iro health alth |