Show Fruits as Food and Medicine Of all the fruits with which we are sed the peach is the most delicious J 1 digestible There is nothing more ble wholesome and medicinal than ripe peaches They should be ripe jt overripe and halfrotten and of 5 ad they may make a part of either 5 or be eaten between meals but it Uer to make them a part of the Uir meals It is a mistaken i eat ea-t 110 fruit should be eaten at breakfast would be far better if our people would J r less bacon and grease at breakfast 1 more fruit Jn the morning there is S secretions and J J acrid state of the timiimg is so well calculated to correct jisas COoling subacid fruits such as Caches tipples etc Still most of us S nave been taught that eating fruit before Breakfast is highly dangerous How the lea originated I do not know but it is frtamly a great error contrary to both reason and facts The apple is one of the bcbt of fruits Baked or stewed apples will generally agree with the most delicate stomach and are an excellent excel-lent medicine in many cases of sickness ijreen or halfripe apples stewed and HceteiKd are pleasant to the taste ruohng nourishing and laxative far aiKnor in many cases to the abomin ajlejdo is of salts and oil usually given in lever and other diseases Raw apples and dried apples stewed are better bet-ter for constipation than liver ills Oranges are very acceptable to most stomachs having all the advan ttes of the acid alluded to but the orange juice alone should be taken re Ktmg 1 the pulp The same may be said U I lemons pomegranates and all that lass Lemonade is the best drink in frvers and when thickened with sugar is I letter than syrup of squills and other nauseants in many cases of cough Tomatoes act on the liver and bowels nd are much more pleasant and safe than blue mass and liver regulators Tin juice should be used alone rejecting NIP t Mans The smallseeded fruits such IS blackberries figs raspberries currants cur-rants and strawberries may be classed among the best foods and medicines The sugar in them is nutritious the acid iHwlm and purifying and the seeds tfe laxative We would be much the Miners if we would look more to our orchards or-chards and gardens for our medicines pd less to our drug stores To cure Her or act on the kidneys no febrifuge cr diuretic is superior to watermelon I hich may with very few exceptions be 1 Jken m sickness and health in almost united un-ited quantities not only without in lury but with positive benefit But in Using them the water or juice should to taken excluding the pulp and the Inelou should be fresh and ripe but not overripe and staleHalls Journal of hlth |