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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Food Remedies, by Florence Daniel
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+Title: Food Remedies
+       Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses
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+Author: Florence Daniel
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+FOOD REMEDIES
+
+
+HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLETS
+
+No. 2.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLETS
+
+NO. 1. THE LEAGUE AGAINST HEALTH.
+
+  By ARNOLD EILOART, B.Sc., Ph.D.
+
+
+NO. 2. FOOD REMEDIES.
+
+  By FLORENCE DANIEL.
+
+
+_Ready in September, 1908._
+
+NO. 3. INSTEAD OF DRUGS.
+
+  By ARNOLD EILOART, B.Sc., Ph.D.
+
+NO. 4. HEALTHY LIFE COOK BOOK.
+
+  By FLORENCE DANIEL.
+
+
+_Ready in December, 1908._
+
+NO. 5. MIND _VERSUS_ MEDICINE.
+
+  By ARNOLD EILOART, B.Sc., Ph.D.
+
+NO. 6. DISTILLED WATER.
+
+  By FLORENCE DANIEL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+            FOOD REMEDIES
+
+FACTS ABOUT FOODS AND THEIR MEDICINAL USES
+
+                  BY
+           FLORENCE DANIEL
+
+
+
+               LONDON
+            C. W. DANIEL
+      11 CURSITOR STREET, E.C.
+                1908
+
+
+
+
+_PREFACE_
+
+
+There is a sentence in the Talmud to the effect that the Kingdom of God
+is nigh when the teacher gives the name of the author of the information
+that he is passing on. With every desire to fulfil the rabbinical
+precept and acknowledge the sources of this booklet, I find myself in a
+quandary. If I make my acknowledgments duly I must begin with my
+grandmother and Culpeper's Herbal. Following upon those come the results
+of my own and friends' practical experience. After this I should,
+perhaps, give a list of the periodicals from whose pages I have culled
+much helpful information. But as space and memory preclude individual
+mention I must content myself with this general acknowledgment. Lastly,
+I desire to record my thanks to Dr. Fernie, whose _Meals Medicinal_, a
+large and exhaustive collection of facts about food, has afforded not
+the least valuable assistance.
+                                                    F. D.
+
+
+
+
+_CONTENTS_
+
+
+PART 1.--INTRODUCTORY
+                                         PAGE
+While there is Fruit there is Hope          1
+Fruit and the Teeth                         5
+Fruit is Food                               6
+Objections to Fruit                         8
+A Pioneer of Food Remedies                 10
+The Simple Life                            12
+Fruit or Fasting                           13
+Acute Illness                              14
+
+
+PART II.--FOODS AND THEIR
+MEDICINAL USES
+
+Almond                                     15
+Apple                                      16
+Asparagus                                  20
+Banana                                     20
+Barley                                     23
+Blackberry                                 24
+Black Currant                              26
+Brazil Nuts                                26
+Beans, Peas, and Lentils                   27
+Beet                                       28
+Cabbage                                    28
+Caraway Seed                               29
+Carrot                                     30
+Celery                                     31
+Cresses                                    31
+Chestnut                                   32
+Cinnamon                                   32
+Cocoanut                                   33
+Coffee                                     33
+Date                                       34
+Elderberry                                 34
+Fig                                        38
+Grape                                      39
+Gooseberry                                 43
+Lavender                                   43
+Lemon                                      44
+Lettuce                                    46
+Nettle                                     47
+Nuts                                       47
+Oat                                        51
+Olive                                      52
+Onion                                      53
+Orange                                     56
+Parsley                                    57
+Pear                                       58
+Pea Nut                                    59
+Pine-Apple                                 60
+Pine Kernel                                64
+Plum, Prune                                64
+Potatoe                                    66
+Radish                                     67
+Raspberry                                  68
+Rice                                       68
+Rhubarb                                    69
+Sage                                       71
+Strawberry                                 72
+Spinach                                    72
+Tomato                                     73
+Turnip                                     74
+Thyme                                      75
+Walnut                                     75
+Wheat                                      76
+
+
+PART III.--INDICES
+
+Index to Diseases and Remedies             79
+Index to Prescriptions and Recipes         86
+Index--Miscellaneous                       87
+
+
+
+
+FOOD REMEDIES
+
+
+
+
+PART I.--INTRODUCTORY
+
+_While there is Fruit there is hope._
+
+
+While there is life--and fruit--there is hope. When this truth is
+realised by the laity nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand
+professors of the healing art will be obliged to abandon their
+profession and take to fruit-growing for a living.
+
+Many people have heard vaguely of the "grape cure" for diseases arising
+from over-feeding, and the lemon cure for rheumatism, but for the most
+part these "cures" remain mere names. Nevertheless it is almost
+incredible to the uninitiated what may be accomplished by the
+abandonment for a time of every kind of food in favour of fruit. Of
+course, such a proceeding should not be entered upon in a careless or
+random fashion. Too sudden changes of habit are apt to be attended with
+disturbances that discourage the patient, and cause him to lose patience
+and abandon the treatment without giving it a fair trial. In countries
+where the "grape cure" is practised the patient starts by taking one
+pound of grapes each day, which quantity is gradually increased until he
+can consume six pounds. As the quantity of grapes is increased that of
+the ordinary food is decreased, until at last the patient lives on
+nothing but grapes.[1] I have not visited a "grape cure" centre in
+person, but I have read that it is not only persons suffering from the
+effects of over-feeding who find salvation in the "grape cure," but that
+consumptive patients thrive and even put on weight under it.
+
+The _Herald of Health_ stated, some few years back, that in the South of
+France where the "grape cure" is practised consumptive patients are fed
+on grapes alone, and become quite strong and well in a year or two. And
+I have myself known wonderful cures to follow on the adoption of a
+fruitarian dietary in cases of cancer, tumour, gout, eczema, all kinds
+of inflammatory complaints, and wounds that refused to heal.
+
+H. Benjafield, M.B., writing in the _Herald of Health_, says: "Garrod,
+the great London authority on gout, advises his patients to take
+oranges, lemons, strawberries, grapes, apples, pears, etc. Tardieu, the
+great French authority, maintains that the salts of potash found so
+plentifully in fruits are the chief agents in purifying the blood from
+these rheumatic and gouty poisons.... Dr. Buzzard advises the scorbutic
+to take fruit morning, noon, and night. Fresh lemon juice in the form of
+lemonade is to be his ordinary drink; the existence of diarrhoea should
+be no reason for withholding it." The writer goes on to show that
+headache, indigestion, constipation, and all other complaints that
+result from the sluggish action of bowels and liver can never be cured
+by the use of artificial fruit salts and drugs.
+
+Salts and acids as found in organised forms are quite different in their
+effects to the products of the laboratory, notwithstanding that the
+chemical composition may be shown to be the same. The chemist may be
+able to manufacture a "fruit juice," but he cannot, as yet, manufacture
+the actual fruit. The mysterious life force always evades him. Fruit is
+a vital food, it supplies the body with something over and above the
+mere elements that the chemist succeeds in isolating by analysis. The
+vegetable kingdom possesses the power of directly utilising minerals,
+and it is only in this "live" form that they are fit for the consumption
+of man. In the consumption of sodium chloride (common table salt),
+baking powders, and the whole army of mineral drugs and essences, we
+violate that decree of Nature which ordains that the animal kingdom
+shall feed upon the vegetable and the vegetable upon the mineral.
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[1] This was the original treatment; now other food is added, although
+excellent results were obtained under the old _régime_.
+
+
+_Fruit and the Teeth._
+
+I mention the above because one of the objections that I have heard
+cited against the free use of fruit is that "the acids act injuriously
+upon the teeth." Until I became a vegetarian I used to visit a dentist
+regularly every six months. I had done this for ten years, and nearly
+every tooth in my gums had its gold filling. The last time I visited the
+dentist I told him that I had become a vegetarian, and he replied that
+he rather thought my teeth would decay quicker in future on account of
+an increased consumption of vegetable acids. But from that day, now
+nearly six years ago, to the present time, I have never been near a
+dentist. My teeth seem to have taken a new lease of life. It is a fact
+that the acids in fruit and vegetables so far from injuring the teeth
+benefit them. Many of these acids are strongly antiseptic and actually
+destroy the germs that cause the teeth to decay. On the other hand, they
+do _not_ attack the enamel of the teeth, while inorganic acids do.
+Nothing cleanses the teeth so effectually as to thoroughly chew a large
+and juicy apple.
+
+
+_Fruit is a Food._
+
+Until quite recently the majority of English-speaking people have been
+accustomed to look upon fruit not as a food, but rather as a sweetmeat,
+to be eaten merely for pleasure, and therefore very sparingly. It has
+consequently been banished from its rightful place at the beginning of
+meals. But fruit is not a "goody," it is a food, and, moreover, a
+complete food. All vegetable foods (in their natural state) contain all
+the elements necessary to form a complete food. At a pinch human life
+might be supported on any one of them. I say "at a pinch" because if
+the nuts cereals and pulses were ruled out of the dietary it would, for
+most people, be deficient in fat and proteid (the flesh and
+muscle-forming element). Nevertheless, fruit alone _will_ sustain life
+if taken in large quantities with small output of energy on the part of
+the person living upon it, as witness the "grape cure."[2] The
+percentage of proteid in grapes is particularly high for fruit.
+
+Those people who desire to make a fruitarian dietary their daily
+_régime_ cannot do better than take the advice of O. Hashnu Hara, an
+American writer. He says: "Every adult requires from twelve to sixteen
+ounces of dry food, _free from water_, daily. To supply this a quarter
+of a pound of _shelled_ nuts and three-quarters of a pound of any dried
+fruit must be used. In addition to this, from two to three pounds of
+any _fresh fruit_ in season goes to complete the day's allowance. These
+quantities should be weighed out ... and will sustain a full-grown man
+in perfect health and vitality. The quantity of ripe fresh fruit may be
+slightly increased in summer, with a corresponding decrease in the dried
+fruit."
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[2] Recent years have witnessed a modification of the original cure.
+Other food is now included, but I have not heard that the results are
+better.
+
+
+_Objections to Fruit._
+
+Some vegetarians object that it is possible to eat too much fruit, and
+recommend caution in the use of it to people of nervous temperament, or
+those who seem predisposed to skin ailments. It is true that the
+consumption of large quantities of fruit may appear to render the
+nervous person more irritable, and to increase the external
+manifestations of a skin disease. But in the latter event the fruit is
+merely assisting Nature to throw the disease out and off more quickly,
+while in the former case the real cause lies not in the fruit but in
+some nerve irritant, tea, for example, the effects of which are more
+acutely felt under the new _régime_. The nervous system tends to become
+much more sensitive upon a vegetarian, especially fruitarian, diet, and
+people often attribute their increased nervousness and irritability to
+the diet when it is simply that they now react more quickly to poisons.
+This is not a bad thing, on the contrary, it shows that the system has
+become more alert. Under the old _régime_ we tend to store up poisons
+and impurities in the body, but the effect of a vegetable diet,
+especially when united with the use of distilled water, is to cause all
+our diseases and impurities to be expelled outwards and downwards. Tea
+is a slow poison, and so is coffee except under exceptional conditions
+when it is used as a medicine, and then it should always be
+pale-roasted.
+
+Fruit should always be eaten at the beginning of a meal. Again, when the
+diet consists of a mixture of cooked and uncooked foods, the uncooked
+should always be eaten first. Also when the meal consists of two
+courses, a sweet and a savoury dish, sufferers from indigestion should
+try taking the sweet course first. I have known several cases where this
+simple expedient has resulted in a complete cessation of the discomfort
+of which the patient complained.
+
+
+_A Pioneer of Food Remedies._
+
+The pioneer, in England, of the treatment of all sorts and conditions of
+disease by means of a vegetable (chiefly fruit) dietary was Dr. Lambe, a
+contemporary of the poet Shelley. His last book appeared in 1815, and in
+it and the one preceding are recorded some wonderful cures, especially
+in cases of cancer. It is only fair to add here that in Dr. Lambe's
+opinion no system of cure is completely efficacious so long as the
+patient is allowed to drink the ordinary tap or well water. Distilled
+water was the only drink he advised. But he held it better still not to
+drink at all if the necessary liquid could be supplied to the body by
+means of fresh, juicy fruits. He contended that man is not naturally a
+drinking animal; that his thirst is a morbid symptom, the outcome of a
+carnivorous diet and other unwholesome habits. And I think that anyone
+may prove the truth of this for him or herself if he or she will adopt a
+fruitarian dietary and abstain from the use of salt and other
+condiments.
+
+I have cited so out-of-date a personage as Dr. Lambe for two reasons.
+The first is that I know many of the so-called new and unorthodox ideas
+are more likely to appeal to some readers, if it can be shown that they
+originated with a duly qualified medical practitioner who recorded the
+results of his observations and experiments in black and white. The
+second is that the principles and practices of Dr. Lambe are
+incorporated with those of the Physical Regeneration Society, a large
+and ever-increasing body of enthusiasts having its head-quarters in
+London, to whose annals I must refer those readers who desire up-to-date
+instances of the efficacy of the use of fruit in disease. Lack of space
+will not allow me to quote them here.
+
+
+_The Simple Life._
+
+We hear a great deal about the "Simple Life" and "Returning to Nature"
+nowadays, but most of us are so situated that the proposed simplicity
+simply spells increased complexity. The "vegetarian chop" costs the
+housewife more than double the time and labour involved in preparing its
+fleshly namesake. And when it comes to illness some of the systems of
+bathing and exercising prescribed by the "naturopath" are infinitely
+more troublesome to the patient and his friends than the simple
+expedient of sending for the doctor and taking the prescribed doses. I
+do not want to be misunderstood here. I am not condemning treatment
+with water and exercises. On the contrary, I hope to pass on what I have
+learnt about these methods of treatment. But so many people lack the
+time, help, and conveniences necessary to carry them out successfully.
+It is to these that I would say that the patient's cure may be effected
+just as surely, if more slowly, by means of fruit alone.
+
+
+_Fruit or Fasting._
+
+Treatment of disease by fasting has come into fashion of late, and there
+is really no lack of proof as to the benefits to be obtained from
+abstaining entirely from food for a short period. I know of an elderly
+man who fasts for a fortnight every spring, and gains, not loses, weight
+during the process! He accounts for this by explaining that certain
+stored up, undigested food particles come out and are digested while he
+fasts. Whether this is the correct explanation I do not know, but the
+fact remains, and it is not by any means a solitary case. Of course, the
+majority of people lose weight when fasting, but this is very quickly
+recovered. Now I do not think fasting should be undertaken recklessly,
+but only under competent direction. But an excellent and safe substitute
+for a fast is an exclusive fruit diet.
+
+
+_Acute Illness._
+
+The simplest and quickest method of recovering from attacks of acute
+illness, fevers, inflammatory diseases, etc., is to rest quietly in bed
+in a warm but well-ventilated room, and to take three meals a day of
+fresh ripe fruit, grapes by preference. If the grapes are grown out of
+doors and ripened in the sun so much the better. I have found from two
+to three pounds of grapes per day sufficient. If there is thirst, barley
+water flavoured with lemon juice should be taken between the meals.
+
+
+
+
+PART II.--FOODS AND THEIR MEDICINAL USES
+
+
+
+
+_Almond._
+
+Almond soup is an excellent substitute for beef-tea for convalescents.
+It is made by simply blanching and pounding a quarter of a pound of
+sweet almonds with half a pint of milk, or vegetable stock. Another pint
+of milk or stock is then to be added and the whole warmed. After this
+add another pint and a half of stock if the soup is to be a vegetable
+one, or rice water if milk has been used.
+
+An emulsion of almonds is useful in chest affections. It is made by well
+macerating the nuts in a nut butter machine, and mixing with orange or
+lemon juice.
+
+Almonds should always be blanched, that is, skinned by pouring boiling
+water on the nuts and allowing them to soak for one minute, after which
+the skins are easily removed. The latter possess irritating properties.
+
+Bitter almonds should not be used as a food. They contain a poison
+identical with prussic acid.
+
+
+_Apple._
+
+It is hardly possible to take up any newspaper or magazine now a days
+without happening on advertisements of patent medicines whose chief
+recommendation is that they "contain phosphorus." They are generally
+very expensive, but the reader is assured that they are worth ten times
+the price asked on account of their wonderful properties as nerve and
+brain foods. The proprietors of these concoctions seemingly flourish
+like green bay trees and spend many thousands of pounds per annum in
+advertising. From which it may be deduced that sufferers from nervous
+exhaustion and brain fag number millions. And surely only a sufferer
+from brain fag would suffer himself to be led blindly into wasting his
+money, and still further injuring his health, by buying and swallowing
+drugs about whose properties and effects he knows absolutely nothing.
+How much simpler, cheaper, and more enjoyable to eat apples!
+
+The apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other
+fruit or vegetable. For this reason it is an invaluable nerve and brain
+food. Sufferers from nerve and brain exhaustion should eat at least two
+apples _at the beginning of each meal_. At the same time they should
+avoid tea and coffee, and supply their place with barley water or bran
+tea flavoured with lemon juice, or even apple tea.
+
+Apples are also invaluable to sufferers from the stone or calculus. It
+has been observed that in cider countries where the natural unsweetened
+cider is the common beverage, cases of stone are practically unknown.
+Food-reformers do not deduce from this that the drinking of cider is to
+be recommended, but that even better results may be obtained from eating
+the fresh, ripe fruit.
+
+Apples periodically appear upon the tables of carnivorous feeders in the
+form of apple sauce. This accompanies bilious dishes like roast pork and
+roast goose. The cook who set this fashion was evidently acquainted with
+the action of the fruit upon the liver. All sufferers from sluggish
+livers should eat apples.
+
+Apples will afford much relief to sufferers from gout. The malic acid
+contained in them neutralises the chalky matter which causes the gouty
+patient's sufferings.
+
+Apples, when eaten ripe and without the addition of sugar, diminish
+acidity in the stomach. Certain vegetable salts are converted into
+alkaline carbonates, and thus correct the acidity.
+
+An old remedy for weak or inflamed eyes is an apple poultice. I am told
+that in Lancashire they use rotten apples for this purpose, but
+personally I should prefer them sound.
+
+A good remedy for a sore or relaxed throat is to take a raw ripe apple
+and scrape it to a fine pulp with a silver teaspoon. Eat this pulp by
+the spoonful, very slowly, holding it against the back of the throat as
+long as possible before swallowing.
+
+A diet consisting chiefly of apples has been found an excellent cure for
+inebriety. Health and strength may be fully maintained upon fine
+wholemeal unleavened bread, pure dairy or nut butter, and apples.
+
+Apple water or apple tea is an excellent drink for fever patients.
+
+Apples possess tonic properties and provoke appetite for food. Hence the
+old-fashioned custom of eating an apple before dinner.
+
+
+_Apple Tea._
+
+The following are two good recipes for apple tea:-- (1) Take 2 sound
+apples, wash, but do not peel, and cut into thin slices. Add some strips
+of lemon rind. Pour on 1 pint of boiling water (distilled). Strain when
+cold. (2) Bake 2 apples. Pour over them 1 pint boiling water. Strain
+when cold.
+
+
+_Asparagus._
+
+Asparagus is said to strengthen and develop the artistic faculties. It
+also calms palpitation of the heart. It is very helpful to rheumatic
+patients on account of its salts of potash. It should be steamed, not
+boiled, otherwise part of the valuable salts are lost.
+
+
+_Banana._
+
+The banana is invaluable in inflammation of all kinds. For this reason
+it is very useful in cases of typhoid fever, gastritis, peritonitis,
+etc., and may constitute the only food allowed for a time.
+
+Not only does it actually subdue the inflammation of the intestines,
+but, in the opinion of at least one authority, as it consists of 95 per
+cent. nutriment, it does not possess sufficient waste matter to irritate
+the inflamed spots.
+
+But great care should be taken in its administration. The banana should
+be _thoroughly sound and ripe_, and all the stringy portion carefully
+removed. It should then be mashed and beaten to a cream. In severe cases
+I think it is better to give this neat, but if not liked by the patient
+a little lemon juice, well mixed in, may render it more acceptable. It
+may also be taken with fresh cream.
+
+A friend who has had a very wide experience in illness told me that she
+was once hurriedly sent for at night to a girl suffering from
+peritonitis. Not knowing what she might, or might not, find in the way
+of remedies when she arrived at her destination, my friend took with her
+some strong barley water, bananas, and an enema syringe. She found the
+girl lying across the bed screaming, obviously in agony. First of all my
+friend administered a warm water enema. A pint of plain warm water was
+injected first, and after this had come away as much warm water as could
+be got in was injected and then allowed to come away. The object of this
+was to thoroughly wash out the bowels. Then the barley water was warmed,
+the bananas mashed, beaten to cream, and mixed in with the barley water.
+A soothing nutrient lotion was thus prepared, and as much as the patient
+could bear comfortably was injected in the bowel and retained as long as
+possible. The effect was magical. The pain subsided, and the patient
+ultimately recovered.
+
+In the absence of _perfectly_ ripe bananas, baked bananas may be used.
+But, although better than no fruit at all, cooked fruit is never so
+valuable as the fresh fruit, if only the latter be perfectly ripe.
+Bananas should be baked in their skins, and the stringy pieces carefully
+removed before eating. From twenty minutes to half an hour's slow
+cooking is required.
+
+Bananas are excellent food for anæmic persons on account of the iron
+they contain. A very palatable way of taking them is with fresh orange
+juice.
+
+A comparatively old-fashioned remedy, for sprained or bruised places
+that show a tendency to become inflamed is to apply a plaster of banana
+skin.
+
+
+_Barley._
+
+Barley is excellent food for the anæmic and nervous on account of its
+richness in iron and phosphoric acid. It is also useful in fevers and
+all inflammatory diseases, on account of its soothing properties. From
+the earliest times barley water has been the recognised drink of the
+sick.
+
+
+_Barley Water._
+
+When using pearl barley for making barley water it must be well washed.
+The fine white dust that adheres to it is most unwholesome. For this
+reason the cook is generally directed to first boil the barley for five
+minutes, and throw this water away. But in this way some of the valuable
+properties are thrown away with the dirt. The best results are obtained
+by well washing it in cold water, but this must be done over and over
+again. Half-a-dozen waters will not be too many. After the last washing
+the water should be perfectly clear.
+
+When barley water is being used for curative purposes it should be
+strong. The following recipe is an excellent one. A ½ pint of barley
+to 2½ pints water (distilled if possible). Boil for three hours, or
+until reduced to 2 pints. Strain and add 4 teaspoonfuls fresh lemon
+juice. Sweeten to taste with pure cane sugar.
+
+Fine Scotch barley is to be preferred to the pearl barley if it can be
+obtained.
+
+
+_Blackberry._
+
+Fresh blackberries are one of the most effectual cures for diarrhoea
+known. Mr. Broadbent records the case of a child who was cured by eating
+an abundance of blackberries after five doctors had tried all the known
+remedies in vain.
+
+
+_Blackberry Tea._
+
+In the absence of the fresh fruit a tea made of blackberry jelly and hot
+water (a large tablespoonful of jelly to half a pint water) will be
+found very useful. A teacupful should be taken at short intervals.
+
+
+_Blackberry Jelly._
+
+To make blackberry jelly get the first fruit of the season if possible,
+and see that it is ripe or it will yield very little juice. Put it into
+the preserving pan, crush it, and allow it to simmer slowly until the
+juice is well drawn out. This will take from three-quarters to one hour.
+Strain through a jelly bag, or fine clean muslin doubled will do. Then
+measure the juice, and to every pint allow ¾ lb. best cane sugar.
+Return to the pan and boil briskly for from twenty minutes to half an
+hour. Stir with a wooden spoon and keep well skimmed. To test, put a
+little of the jelly on a cold plate, and if it sets when cold it is
+done. While still at boiling point pour into clean, dry, and _hot_
+jars, and tie down with parchment covers immediately.
+
+
+_Black Currant._
+
+Black currant tea is one of the oldest of old-fashioned remedies for
+sore throats and colds. It is made by pouring half a pint of boiling
+water on to a large tablespoonful of the jelly or jam. To make the jelly
+use the same recipe as for blackberry jelly.
+
+The fresh juice pressed from the fruit is, of course, better than tea
+made from the jelly, but as winter is the season of coughs and colds the
+fruit is least obtainable when most needed.
+
+
+_Brazil Nut._
+
+Brazil nuts are excellent for constipation. They are also a good
+substitute for suet in puddings. Use 5 oz. nuts to 1 lb. flour. They
+should be grated in a nut mill or finely chopped.
+
+
+_Beans, Peas, and Lentils._
+
+Beans, peas, and lentils are tabooed by the followers of Dr. Haig, the
+gout specialist, on account of the belief that they tend to increase the
+secretion of uric acid. But this evil propensity is stoutly denied by
+other food-reformers. For myself I am inclined to believe that their
+supposed indigestibility, etc., arises from the fact that they are
+generally cooked in hard water. They should be cooked in distilled or
+boiled and filtered rain water. The addition of lemon juice while
+cooking renders them much more digestible.
+
+According to Sir Henry Thomson haricot beans are more easily digested
+than meat by most stomachs. "Consuming weight for weight, the eater
+feels lighter and less oppressed, as a rule, after the leguminous dish;
+while the comparative cost is greatly in favour of the latter."
+
+Lentils are the most easily digested of all the pulse foods, and
+therefore the most suitable for weakly persons. A soup made of
+distilled water and red lentils may be taken twice a week with
+advantage. Lentils contain a good percentage of iron, and also
+phosphates.
+
+
+_Beet._
+
+The red beet is useful in some diseases of the womb, while the white
+beet is good for the liver. It is laxative and diuretic. The juice mixed
+with olive oil is also recommended to be applied externally for burns
+and all kinds of running sores.
+
+
+_Cabbage._
+
+All the varieties of the colewort tribe, including cabbage, cauliflower,
+brussels-sprouts, broccoli, and curly greens, have been celebrated from
+very ancient times for their curative virtues in pulmonary complaints.
+And Athenian doctors prescribed cabbage for nursing mothers. On account
+of the sulphur contained in them cabbages are good for rheumatic
+patients. They may be eaten steamed, or, better still, boiled in soft
+water and the broth only taken. The ordinary boiled cabbage is an
+indigestible "windy" vegetable, and should never be eaten.
+
+
+_Caraway Seed._
+
+Caraway seeds sharpen the vision, promote the secretion of milk, and are
+good against hysterical affections. They are also useful in cases of
+colic. When used to flavour cakes the seeds should be pounded in a
+mortar, especially if children are to partake thereof.
+
+When used medicinally 20 grains of the powdered seeds may be taken in a
+wineglassful of hot water. But for children half an ounce of the bruised
+seeds are to be infused in cold water for six hours, and from 1 to 3
+teaspoonfuls of this water given.
+
+A poultice of crushed caraway seeds moistened with hot water is good for
+sprains.
+
+Caraway seeds are narcotic, and should therefore be used with caution.
+
+
+_Carrot._
+
+Carrots are strongly antiseptic. They are said to be mentally
+invigorating and nerve restoring. They have the reputation of being very
+indigestible on account of the fact that they are generally boiled, not
+steamed. When used medicinally it is best to take the fresh, raw juice.
+This is easily obtained by grating the carrot finely on a common penny
+bread grater, and straining and pressing the pulp thus obtained.
+
+Raw carrot juice, or a raw carrot eaten fasting, will expel worms. The
+cooked carrot is useless for this purpose.
+
+A poultice of fresh carrot pulp will heal ulcers.
+
+Fresh carrot juice is also good for consumptives on account of the large
+amount of sugar it contains.
+
+Carrots are very good for gouty subjects and for derangements of the
+liver.
+
+
+_Celery._
+
+Celery is almost a specific for rheumatism, gout, and nervous
+indigestion. The most useful plants for this purpose are small, not too
+rapidly grown nor very highly manured.
+
+It may be eaten raw, or steamed, or in soup. Strong celery broth
+flavoured with parsley is excellent.
+
+
+_Cresses._
+
+All the cresses are anti-scorbutic, that is, useful against the scurvy.
+The ancient Greeks also believed them to be good for the brain.
+
+The ordinary "mustard and cress" of our salads is good for rheumatic
+patients, while the water-cress is valuable in cases of tubercular
+disease. Anæmic patients may also eat freely of it on account of the
+iron it contains. Care should be taken, however, from whence it is
+procured, as a disease peculiar to sheep but communicable to man may be
+carried by it. It should not be gathered from streams running through
+meadows inhabited by sheep.
+
+
+_Chestnut._
+
+Chestnuts, when cooked, are valuable food for persons with weak
+digestive powers. They should be put on the fire in a saucepan of cold
+water and cooked for twenty minutes from the time the water first boils.
+John Evelyn, F.R.S., a seventeenth century writer, says of them: "They
+are a lusty and masculine food for rustics at all times, and of better
+nourishment for husbandmen than cole and rusty bacon, yea, or beans to
+boot."
+
+
+_Cinnamon._
+
+Cinnamon is a very old-fashioned remedy for soothing the pain of
+internal or unbroken cancer. One prescription is the following: Take
+1 lb. of Ceylon sticks. Simmer in a closed vessel with 1 quart of water
+until the liquid is reduced to 1 pint. Pour off without straining, and
+shake or stir well before taking. Take half a pint every twenty-four
+hours. Divide into small doses and take regularly.
+
+Cinnamon has a powerful influence over disease germs, but care must be
+taken to obtain it pure. It is often adulterated with cassia.
+
+Cinnamon tea may be taken with advantage in cases of consumption,
+influenza, and pneumonia.
+
+
+_Cocoanut._
+
+Cocoanut is an old and very efficacious remedy for intestinal worms of
+all kinds. A tablespoonful of freshly-ground cocoanut should be taken at
+breakfast until the cure is complete. The dessicated cocoanut is useless
+for curative purposes.
+
+
+_Coffee._
+
+Coffee is a most powerful antiseptic, and therefore very useful as a
+disinfectant. It has been used as a specific against cholera with
+marvellous results, and is useful in all cases of intestinal
+derangement. But only the pale-roasted varieties should be taken, as the
+roasting develops the poisonous, irritating properties. There is
+_always_ danger in the roasting of grains or berries on account of the
+new substances that may be developed.
+
+I do not recommend coffee as a beverage, but as a medicine.
+
+
+_Date._
+
+The nourishing properties of dates are well known. They are easily
+digested, and for this reason are often recommended to consumptive
+patients.
+
+According to Dr. Fernie half a pound of dates and half a pint of new
+milk will make a satisfying repast for a person engaged in sedentary
+work.
+
+
+_Elderberry._
+
+The elderberry has fallen into neglect of late years, owing to the lazy
+and disastrous modern habit of substituting the mineral drugs of the
+chemist for the home-made vegetable remedies of our grandmothers.
+Nevertheless, the elderberry is one of the most ancient and tried of
+medicines, held in such great esteem in Germany that, according to the
+German folk-lore, men should take off their hats in the presence of an
+elder-tree. In Denmark there is a legend to the effect that the trees
+are under the protection of a being known as the Elder-Mother, who has
+been immortalised in one of the fairy tales of Hans Andersen.
+
+The berries of the elder-tree are not palatable enough to be used as a
+common article of food, but in the days when nearly every garden boasted
+its elder-tree few housewives omitted to make elderberry wine in due
+season.
+
+It is not permitted to "food-reformers" to make "wine," but those
+readers who are fortunate enough to possess an elder-tree might well
+preserve the juice of the berries against winter coughs and colds.
+
+
+_Preserved Fruit Juice._
+
+The following is E. and B. May's recipe for preserving fruit juice. Put
+the fruit into a preserving-pan, crush it and allow it to simmer slowly
+until the juice is well drawn out. This will take about an hour. Press
+out the juice and strain through a jelly-bag until quite clear. Put the
+juice back into the pan, and to every quart add a quarter of a pound of
+best cane sugar. Stir until dissolved. Put the juice into clean, dry
+bottles. Stand the bottles in a pan of hot water, and when the latter
+has come to the boil allow the bottles to remain in the boiling water
+for fifteen minutes. The idea is to bring the juice inside the bottles
+to boiling point just before sealing up, but not to boil it. See that
+the bottles are _full_. Cork _immediately_ on taking out of the pan,
+and then seal up. To seal mix a little plaster of Paris with water and
+spread it well over the cork. Let it come a little below the cork so as
+to exclude all air.
+
+The juice of the elderberry is famous for promoting perspiration, hence
+its efficacy in the cure of colds. Two tablespoonfuls should be taken at
+bed-time in a tumbler of hot water.
+
+The juice of the elderberry is excellent in fevers, and is also said to
+promote longevity.
+
+
+_Elderberry Poultice._
+
+"The leaves of the elder, boiled until they are soft, with a little
+linseed oil added thereto," laid upon a scarlet cloth and applied, as
+hot as it can be borne, to piles, has been said to be an infallible
+remedy. Each time this poultice gets cold it must be renewed for "the
+space of an hour." At the end of this time the final dressing is to be
+"bound on," and the patient "put warm to bed." If necessary the whole
+operation is to be repeated; but the writer assures us that "this hath
+not yet failed at the first dressing to cure the disease." If any reader
+desires to try the experiment I would suggest that the leaves be steamed
+rather than boiled, and pure olive oil used in the place of linseed oil.
+It must also be remembered that no outward application can be expected
+to effect a permanent cure, since the presence of piles indicates an
+effort of Nature to clear out some poison from the system. But if this
+expulsion is assisted by appropriate means the pain may well be
+alleviated by external applications. (Pepper should be avoided by
+sufferers from piles.)
+
+
+_Fig._
+
+A "lump of figs" laid on the boil of King Hezekiah, as recorded in 2
+Kings xx. 7, brought about that monarch's recovery. The figs used were
+doubtless ripe figs, not the dried figs of our grocers.
+
+"This fruit," says Dr. Fernie, "is soft, easily digested, and corrective
+of strumous disease." The large blue fig may be grown in England, in the
+milder parts and under a warm wall. The fresh figs were rarely seen at
+one time outside of the large "high-class" fruit shops, but for the last
+year or two I have seen them peddled in the streets of London like
+apples and oranges in due season.
+
+Green figs (not unripe) were commonly eaten by Roman gladiators, which
+is surely a sufficient tribute to the fruit's strength-giving qualities.
+
+The best way of preparing dried figs for eating is to wash them very
+quickly in warm water, and steam for twenty minutes or until tender.
+
+
+_Grape._
+
+The special value of the grape lies in the fact that it is a very quick
+repairer of bodily waste, the grape sugar being taken immediately into
+the circulation without previous digestion. For this reason is grape
+juice the best possible food for fever patients, consumptives, and all
+who are in a weak and debilitated condition. The grapes should be well
+chewed, the juice and pulp swallowed, and the skin and stones rejected.
+
+In countries where the grape cure is practised, consumptive patients are
+fed on the sweeter varieties of grape, while those troubled with liver
+complaints, acid gout, or other effects of over-feeding, take the less
+sweet kinds.
+
+Dr. Fernie deprecates the use of grapes for the ordinary gouty or
+rheumatic patient, but with all due deference to that learned authority,
+I do not believe the fruit exists that is not beneficial to the gouty
+person. One of the most gouty and rheumatic people I know, a vegetarian
+who certainly never over-feeds himself, derives great benefit from a few
+days' almost exclusive diet of grapes.
+
+Cream of tartar, a potash salt obtained from the crust formed upon
+bottles and casks by grape juice when it is undergoing fermentation in
+the process of becoming wine, is often used as a medicine. It has been
+cited as an infallible specific in cases of smallpox, but I do not
+recommend its use, as it probably gets contaminated with other
+substances during the process of manufacture. In any case its value
+cannot be compared with the fresh, ripe fruit. I have little doubt but
+that an exclusive diet of grapes, combined with warmth, proper bathing,
+and the absence of drugs, would suffice to cure the most malignant case
+of smallpox.
+
+Sufferers from malaria may use grapes with great benefit. For this
+purpose the grapes, with the skins and stones, should be well pounded in
+a mortar and allowed to stand for three hours. The juice should then be
+strained off and taken. Or persons with good teeth may eat the grapes,
+including the skins and stones, if they thoroughly macerate the latter.
+
+In the absence of fresh grapes raisin-tea is a restoring and nourishing
+drink. Dr. Fernie notes that it is of the same proteid value as milk, if
+made in the proportions given below. It is much more easily digested
+than milk, and therefore of great use in gastric complaints. Sufferers
+from chronic gastritis could not do better than make raisin-tea their
+sole drink, and bananas their only food for a time.
+
+
+_Raisin Tea._
+
+To make raisin-tea, take half a pound of good raisins and wash well, but
+quickly, in lukewarm water. Cut up roughly and put into the
+old-fashioned beef-tea jar with a quart of _distilled_ or boiled and
+filtered _rain_ water. Cook for four hours, or until the liquid is
+reduced to 1 pint. Scald a fine hair sieve and press through it all
+except the skins and stones. If desired a little lemon juice may be
+added.
+
+
+_Gooseberry._
+
+The juice of green gooseberries "cureth all inflammations," while the
+red gooseberry is good for bilious subjects. But it has been said that
+gooseberries are not good for melancholy persons.
+
+Gooseberries are an excellent "spring medicine."
+
+
+_Lavender._
+
+It is very much to be regretted that the nerve-soothing vegetable
+perfumes of our grandmothers have been superseded, for the most part, by
+the cheap mineral products of the laboratory. Scents really prepared
+from the flowers that give them their names are expensive to make, and
+consequently high-priced. The cheap scents are all mineral concoctions,
+and their use is more or less injurious. A penny-worth of dried lavender
+flowers in a muslin bag is even cheaper to buy, inoffensive to
+smell--which is more than can be said of cheap manufactured scents--and
+possesses medicinal properties.
+
+Lavender flowers were formerly used for their curative virtues in all
+disorders of the head and nerves.
+
+An oil, prepared by infusing the crushed lavender flowers in olive oil,
+is recommended for anointing palsied limbs, and at one time a spirit was
+prepared from lavender flowers which was known as "palsy drops."
+
+A tea made with hot water and lavender tops will relieve the headache
+that comes from fatigue.
+
+Dr. Fernie advises 1 dessertspoonful per day of pure lavender water for
+eczema.
+
+The scent of lavender will keep away flies, fleas, and moths.
+
+
+_Lemon._
+
+Lemons are invaluable in cases of gout, malaria, rheumatism, and scurvy.
+They are also useful in fevers and liver complaints.
+
+I have found the juice of one lemon taken in a little hot water remove
+dizzy feelings in the head, accompanied by specks and lights dancing
+before the eyes, consequent upon the liver being out of order, in half
+an hour.
+
+The juice of a lemon in hot water may be taken night and morning with
+advantage by sufferers from rheumatism. In the "lemon cure" for gout and
+rheumatism, the patients begin with one lemon per day and increase the
+quantity until they arrive at a dozen or more. But I think this is
+carrying it to excess. Dr. Fernie recommends the juice of one lemon
+mixed with an equal proportion of hot water, to be taken pretty
+frequently, in cases of rheumatic fever.
+
+A prescription for malaria, given in the _Lancet_, is the following:
+"Take a full-sized lemon, cut it in thin transverse slices, rind and
+all, boil these down in an earthenware jar containing a pint and a half
+of water, until the decoction is reduced to half a pint. Let this cool
+on the window-sill overnight, and drink it off in the morning."
+
+A Florentine doctor discovered that fresh lemon juice will alleviate
+the pain of cancerous ulceration of the tongue. His patient sucked
+slices of lemon.
+
+A German doctor found that fresh lemon juice kills the diptheria
+bacillus, and advises a gargle of diluted lemon juice to diptheric
+patients. Such a gargle is excellent for sore throat.
+
+Dr. Fernie recommends lemon juice for nervous palpitation of the heart.
+
+Lemon juice rubbed on to corns will eventually do away with them, and if
+applied to unbroken chilblains will effect a cure.
+
+Lemon juice is also an old remedy for the removal of freckles and
+blackheads from the face. It should be rubbed in at bedtime, after
+washing with warm water.
+
+
+_Lettuce._
+
+Lettuce is noted for its sedative properties, although these are not
+great in the large, highly-manured, commercial specimens. It is very
+easily digested, and may, therefore, be eaten by those with whom salads
+disagree in the ordinary way.
+
+
+_Nettle._
+
+The tender tops of young nettles picked in the spring make a delicious
+vegetable, somewhat resembling spinach. They are excellent for sufferers
+from gout and skin eruptions.
+
+Fresh nettle juice is prescribed in doses of from 1 to 2 tablespoonfuls
+for loss of blood from the lungs, nose, or internal organs.
+
+
+_Nuts._
+
+Nuts are the true substitute for flesh meat. They contain everything in
+the way of nourishment that meat contains, minus the poisonous
+constituents of the latter. They are very rich in proteid (flesh and
+muscle former) and fat. In addition they possess all the constituents
+that go to make up a perfect food. Nuts and water form a complete
+dietary, although I do not suggest that any reader should try it. If he
+did so he would probably eat too many nuts, not realising how great an
+amount of nourishment is contained in a concentrated form. No one should
+eat more than a quarter of a pound of nuts per day, in addition to other
+food. A pound per day would be more than sufficient if no other food
+were taken. I have little doubt but that the diet of the future will
+consist solely of nuts and fresh fruit. After all it is the food most
+favoured by monkeys, and our teeth and digestive apparatus more nearly
+resemble those of the monkey than the carnivorous and herbivorous
+animals so many of us seemingly prefer to imitate.
+
+The chief objection to nuts is supposed to be on account of their
+indigestibility. But this has its foundation, not in the nut, but in the
+manner of eating it. I recommend all those people who find nuts
+indigestible to pay a visit to the Zoo and see how the monkey eats his
+nuts. He chews and chews and chews. And after that he chews!
+
+I know, alas! that the majority of people do not possess teeth like the
+monkey, and to these I can only suggest that they macerate their nuts in
+a nut butter machine. There are several of these machines on the market,
+and they are stocked by all large "Food-Reform" provision dealers. They
+cost anything from six or seven shillings. The daily allowance of nuts
+may be thoroughly macerated and eaten with fruit in the place of cream.
+Ordinary people may use a nut-mill, which flakes, not macerates, the
+nuts. But people with bad teeth and a weak digestion will do better to
+invest in a nut butter machine. I may add that the nuts will not
+macerate properly unless they are crisp, and to this end they must be
+put in a warm oven for a short time, just before grinding. I have found
+new, English-grown walnuts crisp enough without this preparation. But if
+the nuts are _not_ crisp enough they will simply clog the machine.
+
+Now to our nuts! Almonds are the most nourishing. Next in order come
+walnuts, hazel or cob nuts, and Brazil nuts. The proteid value of these
+three does not differ much. After these come the chestnut and cocoanut,
+and lastly we have the pine kernel. Speaking very roughly, we may liken
+walnuts, hazel nuts, and Brazil nuts to beef for flesh and
+muscle-forming value, while pine kernels correspond more nearly to fish.
+Almonds are nearly double the value of beef.
+
+
+_Nut Cream._
+
+Doctor Fernie recommends the following nut-cream for brain-workers.
+Pound in a mortar, or mince finely, 3 blanched almonds, 2 walnuts, 2
+ounces of pine kernels. Steep overnight in orange or lemon juice.
+
+It should be made fresh daily, and may be used in place of butter.
+
+
+_Oat._
+
+The oat is generally cited as the most nourishing of all the cereals,
+and a good nerve food. The fine oatmeal gruel of our grandmothers has
+gone almost entirely out of fashion, but its use might be revived with
+advantage. Like wheat, it is a complete food. A good preparation of
+groats (ground oats from which the husk has been entirely removed) may
+be taken by those who find other preparations indigestible.
+
+Some persons seem unable to take oatmeal, its use being followed by a
+skin eruption. This is supposed to be due to a special constituent
+called "avenin," the existence of which, however, is denied by some
+authorities.
+
+There is little doubt but that persons of weak digestive powers and
+sedentary habits cannot digest porridge comfortably. In any case
+quickly-cooked porridge is an abomination.
+
+
+_Olive._
+
+The chief use of the olive, at least in this country, consists in the
+oil expressed from it. Unfortunately our so-called olive oil is
+generally cotton-seed oil. Captain Diamond of San Francisco, aged 111,
+and the oldest living athlete in the world, attributes much of his
+health to the use of olive oil. But he lays great stress upon the
+importance of obtaining it pure. Cotton-seed oil consists partly of an
+indigestible gum, and its continued ingestion tends to produce kidney
+trouble and heart failure.
+
+A simple test for purity is to use, the suspected sample for oiling
+floors or furniture. If pure, it will leave a beautiful polish minus
+grease. But if it contains cotton-seed oil, part of it will evaporate,
+leaving the gummy portion behind.
+
+When pure olive oil is shaken in a half-filled bottle, the bubbles
+formed thereby rapidly disappear, but if the sample is adulterated the
+bubbles continue some time before they burst.
+
+Pure olive oil is pale and a greenish yellow.
+
+If equal volumes of strong nitric acid (this may be obtained from any
+chemist) and olive oil are mixed together and shaken in a flask the
+resulting product has a greenish or orange tinge which remains unchanged
+after standing for ten minutes. But if cotton-seed oil is present, the
+mixture is reddish in colour, and becomes brown or black on standing.
+
+Olive oil is slightly laxative, and therefore useful to sufferers from
+constipation. It is also an excellent vermifuge.
+
+Olive oil has been used with great success in the treatment of gall
+stones. A Dr. Rosenberg reported that of twenty-one cases treated by
+"the ingestion of a considerable quantity of olive oil, only two failed
+of complete recovery."
+
+
+_Onion._
+
+The uses of the onion are many and varied. Fresh onion juice promotes
+perspiration, relieves constipation and bronchitis, induces sleep, is
+good for cases of scurvy and sufferers from lead colic. It is also
+excellent for bee and wasp stings.
+
+Onions are noted for their nerve-soothing properties. They are also
+beautifiers of the complexion. But moderation must be observed in their
+use or they are apt to disagree. Not everyone can digest onions,
+although I believe them to be more easily digested raw than cooked.
+
+A raw onion may be rubbed on unbroken chilblains with good results. If
+broken, the onion should be roasted. The heart of a roasted onion placed
+in the ear is an old-fashioned remedy for earache.
+
+Raw onions are a powerful antiseptic. They also attract disease germs to
+themselves, and for this reason may be placed in a sickroom with
+advantage. Needless to say, they should afterwards be burnt or buried.
+Culpeper, the ancient herbalist, says that they "draw corruption unto
+them." It is possibly for this reason that the Vedanta forbids them to
+devout Hindoos.
+
+Garlic possesses the same properties as the onion, but in a very much
+stronger degree. Leeks are very much milder than the onion.
+
+
+_Onion Juice._
+
+The following prescription is excellent for sufferers from bronchitis or
+coughs: Slice a Spanish onion; lay the slices in a basin and sprinkle
+well with pure cane sugar. Cover the basin tightly and leave for twelve
+hours. After this time the basin should contain a quantity of juice.
+Give a teaspoonful every now and then until relief is afforded. If too
+much be taken it may induce headache and vomiting.
+
+
+_Onion Poultice._
+
+An excellent poultice for the chest may be made by placing one or two
+English onions in a muslin bag and pounding them to a pulp. This should
+be renewed every three or four hours, and the chest washed. I have been
+told that, at the age of six weeks old, I was saved from dying of
+bronchitis by such an onion poultice applied to the soles of my feet.
+
+
+_Orange._
+
+The orange possesses most of the virtues of the lemon, but in a modified
+form. But it has the advantage of being more palatable.
+
+The juice of oranges has been observed to exert such a beneficial
+influence on the blood as to prevent and cure influenza. Taken freely
+while the attack is on they seemingly prevent the pneumonia that so
+often follows. By far the quickest way to overcome influenza is to
+subsist solely on oranges for three or four days. Hot distilled water
+may be taken in addition.
+
+The peel of the bitter Seville orange is an excellent tonic and remedy
+in cases of malaria and ague. A drink may be prepared from it according
+to the prescription under the heading "Lemon."
+
+The "orange cure" is used with great success for consumptive patients,
+for chest affections of all kinds, for asthma, and some stomach
+complaints. Oranges are taken freely at every meal. The "navel" kind are
+generally used.
+
+Herbalists sell dried orange pips to be crushed to a powder and taken in
+the proportion of 1 teaspoonful to a cup of hot water. This is a
+harmless sedative, and useful in hysterical affections.
+
+
+_Marmalade Tonic._
+
+A drink made with half a pint of hot water poured over a tablespoonful
+of good, home-made marmalade will often give relief in cases of
+neuralgia and pains in the head.
+
+
+_Parsley._
+
+Parsley is useful in cases of menstrual obstruction and diseases of the
+kidneys. The bruised leaves applied to the breasts of nursing mothers
+are said to cure painful lumps and threatened abscess. It may also be
+taken with advantage by cancerous patients. In all these cases parsley
+may be taken in the form of a soup, in common use among members of the
+Physical Regeneration Society, which consists of onions, tomatoes,
+celery, and parsley, stewed together in distilled water.
+
+Dr. Fernie remarks that when uncooked parsley has been eaten to excess
+it has been observed to produce epilepsy in certain bodily systems. The
+oil of parsley has also been found useful in cases of epilepsy. This
+would naturally follow on the homeopathic principle of similars.
+
+
+_Pear._
+
+The pear possesses most of the virtues of the apple. But, unlike the
+latter, it is credited with producing a constipating effect if eaten
+without its skin. In an old recipe book I found the following tribute to
+Bergamot pears. The writer says: "I had for some years been afflicted
+with the usual symptoms of the stone in the bladder, when meeting with
+Dr. Lobb's "Treatise of Dissolvents for the Stone and Gravel," I was
+induced on his recommendation to try Bergamot pears, a dozen or more
+every day with the rind, when in less than a week I observed a large red
+flake in my urine, which, on a slight touch, crumbled into the finest
+powder, and this was the same for several succeeding days. It is ten
+years since I made the experiment, and I have been quite free from any
+complaints of that nature ever since. The pears were of the small sort
+and full of knots."
+
+
+_Pea Nut._
+
+The pea nut--or monkey nut--is especially recommended as a cure for
+indigestion. I have not been able to find out why. As a matter of fact
+it is such a highly-concentrated food that, unless taken in very small
+quantities, it is liable to upset weak digestions. I suspect the secret
+to lie in the chewing. Almost any kind of nut will cure the habitual
+indigestion induced by "bolting" the food, if only it be chewed until it
+is liquid. Hard biscuits will do instead of nuts, although an uncooked
+food like the nut is the better. But whatever is taken must be
+"Fletcherised," that is, chewed and chewed and chewed until it is all
+reduced to liquid.
+
+Pea nuts contain a good deal of oil, and for this reason are recommended
+for consumptives. They are the cheapest nuts to buy, for the reason that
+they are not really nuts but beans.
+
+
+_Pine-apple._
+
+Pine-apple juice is the specific for diphtheria. This seems to have
+been first brought to the notice of Europeans by the fact that negroes
+living round about the swamps of Louisiana were observed to use it with
+great success. A writer who records this says: "The patient should be
+forced to swallow the juice. This fluid is of so pungent and corrosive a
+nature that it cuts out the diphtheria mucous and causes it to
+disappear."
+
+The above direction looks satisfactory enough on paper, and it is
+eminently cheering to read of how the pine-apple juice causes the
+diphtheria mucous to disappear, but anyone who knows anything about
+diphtheria knows that to "force" a diphtheria patient to swallow is more
+easily written about than accomplished. Fortunately I have been able to
+obtain the following explicit directions from an experienced nurse and
+mother:
+
+The pine-apple should be cut up and well pounded in a mortar. The juice
+must then be pressed out and strained through well-scalded muslin. The
+patient's mouth must be washed out with warm water. The juice may now be
+given with a silver teaspoon. It is possible that the patient may be
+quite unable to swallow any of it. If this be so, the juice will serve
+as a mouth and throat wash. It will gradually dissolve the membrane, and
+enable it to be scraped gently away with the spoon. The juice should be
+given, and the throat scraped as far down as the nurse can reach, as
+often as the patient can bear it. The time will come, sooner or later,
+when the juice is swallowed. No other food should be given. The nurse
+may have to work away for some hours before any juice is swallowed, but
+my friend assures me that if the scraping be done gently and skilfully,
+even children will bear it patiently. Only a silver or bone spoon should
+be used, and, needless to say, it must be well scalded in boiling water
+in the intervals of using.
+
+It is a remarkable fact that while pine-apple juice exercises this
+remarkable corrosive power upon diseased mucous, its effect upon the
+most delicate, healthy membrane is absolutely harmless. I have seen
+sweet pine-apple juice given to six-months-old babies as a supplement to
+the mother's milk, with excellent results.
+
+Dr. Hillier, writing in the _Herald of Health_ in 1897, says "Sliced
+pine-apples, laid in pure honey for a day or two, when used in
+moderation, will relieve the human being from chronic impaction of the
+bowels, reestablish peristaltic motion, and induce perfect digestion."
+
+"A slice of fresh pine-apple," writes Dr. Fernie, "is about as wise a
+thing as one can take by way of dessert after a substantial meal." This
+is because fresh pine-apple juice has been found to act upon animal food
+in very much the same way that the gastric juice acts within the
+stomach. But vegetarians should eat fresh fruit at the beginning of
+meals rather than at the end.
+
+The pine-apple is useful in all ordinary cases of sore-throat.
+
+One pine-apple of average size should yield half a pint of juice.
+
+Tinned or cooked pine-apple is useless for curative purposes.
+
+
+_Pine Kernel._
+
+Pine kernels are recommended to those who find other nuts difficult to
+digest. They are the most easily digested of all the nuts. They are
+often used for cooking in the place of suet, being very oily.
+
+
+_Plum, Prune._
+
+The disfavour with which "stone fruits," especially plums, are generally
+regarded owes its being to the fact that they are too often eaten when
+unripe. When ripe, they are as wholesome as any other fruit. Unripe they
+provoke choleraic diarrhoea.
+
+The prune, a variety of dried plum, has been recommended as a remedy
+against viciousness and irritability. An American doctor declares that
+there is a certain medicinal property in the prune which acts directly
+upon the nervous system, and that is where the evil passions have their
+seat. He reports that he tried the experiment of including prunes in the
+meals of the vicious, intractable youths of a reformatory, and that by
+the end of a week they were peaceable as lambs. Most writers who comment
+on this seem to suggest that any fruit which is mildly aperient would
+produce the same effect. But the mother of a large family tells me that
+she has observed that prunes seem to possess a soothing property that is
+all their own.
+
+
+_Prune Tea._
+
+Prune tea is an excellent drink for irritable persons. It is made as
+follows: To every pint of washed prunes allow 1 quart of distilled
+water. Soak the prunes all night, and afterwards simmer to rags in the
+same water. Strain, and flavour with lemon juice if desired.
+
+
+_Potato._
+
+The potato is a cheap and homely remedy against gout, scurvy, and
+rickets. Dr. Lambe tells how he cured a case of scurvy solely with raw
+potatoes. One of the favourite dishes of that good old doctor was a
+salad composed of sliced raw potatoes and olive oil.
+
+In order to preserve the medicinal properties of potatoes when cooked,
+they must always be steamed in their jackets. The skin may be removed
+before eating, but care should be taken not to allow a particle of the
+potato to adhere to it. The valuable potash salts chiefly lie just under
+the skin.
+
+A raw potato scraped or powdered to a pulp is an excellent remedy for
+burns and scalds.
+
+Dr. Fernie recommends the following decoction with which to bathe the
+swollen and inflamed joints of rheumatic sufferers. Take 1 lb.
+potatoes, cut each into four, but do not peel them. Boil in 2 pints of
+water until stewed down to 1 pint. Strain, and use the liquid.
+
+Eaten to excess potatoes are apt to cause dullness and laziness.
+
+
+_Radish._
+
+The radish is commonly cited as indigestible, but for all that it is
+commended by old writers as a potent remedy for stone. If not too old,
+well masticated, and eaten at the beginning of a meal, I do not think it
+is more indigestible than the majority of vegetables.
+
+A syrup made with the juice expressed from pounded radishes and cane
+sugar is recommended for rheumatism, bronchial troubles, whooping-cough,
+and pustular eruptions.
+
+Dr. Fernie notes that the black radish is especially useful against
+whooping-cough, probably by reason of its volatile, sulphureted oil.
+"It is employed in Germany for this purpose by cutting off the top, and
+then making a hole within the root, which hole is filled with treacle,
+or honey, and allowed to stand thus for two or three days; afterwards a
+teaspoonful of the medicated liquid is to be given two or three times in
+the day, with a dessertspoonful of water, when required."
+
+I am not acquainted with the "black radish," but mothers might do worse,
+in cases of whooping-cough, than give their children the juice of
+pounded radishes mixed with pure honey.
+
+
+_Raspberry._
+
+Raspberries are excellent against the scurvy, and, like the blackberry,
+good for relaxed bowels. They are a very wholesome fruit, and should be
+given to those who have "weak and queasy stomachs."
+
+
+_Rice._
+
+The chief medicinal value of rice lies in the quickness with which it
+is digested. One authority says that "it can be taken four times a day
+and the patient still get twenty hours' rest." It is consequently of
+great value in digestive and intestinal troubles. But it should be
+_unpolished_, otherwise it is an ill-balanced, deficient food. It should
+likewise be boiled in only just enough soft water to be absorbed during
+the cooking. One cup of rice should be put on in a double saucepan with
+three cups of cold water and tightly covered. When the water is all
+absorbed the rice will be cooked.
+
+The large-grained, unpolished rice sold at "Food-Reform" stores at 3d.
+per lb. absorbs the water and cooks much more easily than a smaller
+variety sold at 2d. I have found the latter most unsatisfactory.
+
+
+_Rhubarb._
+
+Rhubarb is a wholesome and cooling spring vegetable, and may well take
+the place of cooked fruit when the latter is scarce. But it is
+generally forbidden to rheumatic and gouty patients on account of its
+oxalic acid. This oxalic acid is supposed to combine with the lime in
+the blood of the gouty person, and to form crystals of oxalate of lime,
+which are eliminated by the kidneys. At the same time the general health
+suffers. "Dr. Prout," writes Dr. Fernie, "says he has seen well-marked
+instances in which an oxalate of lime kidney attack has followed the use
+of garden rhubarb in a tart or pudding, likewise of sorrel in a salad,
+particularly when at the same time the patient has been drinking hard
+water. But chemists explain that oxalates may be excreted in the urine
+without having necessarily been a constituent, as such, of vegetable or
+other foods taken at table, seeing that citric, malic, and other organic
+acids which are found distributed throughout the vegetable world are
+liable to chemical conversion into oxalic acid through a fermentation or
+perverted digestion."
+
+I think the moral of the above is: "Do not drink hard water."
+Especially do not cook fruit and vegetables in hard water. They are
+nearly always rendered indigestible by such a process, and
+"vegetarianism," not the hard water, is often blamed for the sufferings
+of the consumers.
+
+Rhubarb is apt to be over-valued as a "spring medicine" on account of
+its association with the Turkey rhubarb of _materia medica_. It should
+be thoroughly ripe before eating.
+
+I am _not_ recommending Turkey rhubarb.
+
+
+_Sage._
+
+Sage is said to promote longevity, to quicken the senses and memory, and
+to strengthen the nerves.
+
+Sage tea is recommended for pulmonary consumption and for excessive
+perspiration of the feet. A teaspoonful of dried sage, or rather more if
+the fresh leaves be used, is steeped in half a pint of water for
+twenty-four hours. A teacupful is to be taken night and morning.
+
+Sage, like so many of the fragrant herbs, is antiseptic.
+
+
+_Strawberry._
+
+The strawberry is exceptionally wholesome on account of its being so
+easily digested. It is recommended for gout, rheumatism, and the stone.
+Also for anæmic patients on account of the iron it contains.
+
+H. Benjafield, M.B., advises anæmic girls to take 1 quart of
+strawberries per day, and when these are not obtainable several ripe
+bananas.
+
+
+_Spinach._
+
+Professor Bunge declared that iron should never be taken in its mineral
+form, but that those who are in need of an iron tonic should take it as
+it exists in vegetables and fruit. To this end he especially commends
+spinach.
+
+Dr. Luff puts spinach first on a list of vegetables recommended to
+those who suffer from gouty tendencies.
+
+Spinach is very easily digested, and so juicy that no added water is
+needed in which to cook it.
+
+
+_Tomato._
+
+The tomato, according to an American physician, is one of the most
+powerful _deobstruents_ (remover of disease particles, and opener of the
+natural channels of the body) of the _materia medica_. It should be used
+in all affections of the liver, etc., where calomel is indicated.
+
+The superstition that tomatoes are a cause of cancer is absolutely
+without foundation. Vegetarian cancer patients who have recovered after
+being given up as "hopeless" by the orthodox faculty eat tomatoes
+freely. Another belief, strongly supported by some otherwise "advanced"
+scientific men, is that tomatoes are bad for those who suffer from a
+tendency to gout, or uric acid disease. But this has been contradicted
+by others. The evil agency in the tomato is supposed to be the oxalic
+salt which it undoubtedly contains. But it has been shown by experiment
+how certain chemical compounds as obtained from plants act quite
+differently to the same compounds artificially prepared in the
+laboratory. So that the contention of those who assert that the tomato
+is not only harmless, but even beneficial to gouty subjects, is not
+unreasonable. Speaking from experience, I can only say that one of the
+goutiest subjects I know eats tomatoes nearly every day of his life, and
+continues to progress rapidly towards health.
+
+A tomato poultice is said to cleanse foul ulcers, and promote their
+healing. It should be renewed frequently, and applied hot.
+
+
+_Turnip._
+
+Turnips are anti-scorbutic.
+
+An old remedy for chronic coughs was turnip juice boiled with sugar.
+The turnips were grated, the juice pressed out, and 2½ ozs. candied
+sugar were allowed to 1 pint of juice. This was boiled until it slightly
+thickened. A teaspoonful to be taken several times a day.
+
+The green turnip tops, steamed until tender, are a good "spring
+medicine."
+
+
+_Thyme._
+
+The common garden thyme, used for flavouring, is credited with many
+virtues. It is said to inspire courage and enliven the spirits, and for
+this reason should be taken by melancholy persons. It is good against
+nervous headache, flatulence, and hysterical affections. It is
+antiseptic.
+
+
+_Walnuts._
+
+The walnut has been called vegetable arsenic because of its curative
+value in eczema. An oil obtained from the kernel has been found of great
+service when applied externally in cases of skin diseases. The leaves
+of the walnut tree are also used for the same purpose, both externally
+and internally. One ounce of the leaves to 12 tablespoonfuls of boiling
+water make a tea, half a tea-cup of which may be taken several times a
+day. The affected parts should also be washed with it.
+
+Walnuts, to be well masticated, have been given to gouty and rheumatic
+patients with great success. About one dozen per day is the quantity
+prescribed. It is possible that herein lies the secret of the fact that
+our ancestors invariably took walnuts with their wine.
+
+The green, unripe walnut is useful for expelling worms.
+
+
+_Wheat._
+
+Whole wheat is a perfect food. In the form of white flour, however, it
+is an imperfect, unbalanced food, on account of its deprivation of the
+valuable phosphates which exist in the bran. Rickets and malnutrition
+generally are the outcome of the habitual use of white flour, unless the
+loss of mineral matter is counter balanced by other foods.
+
+Only the very finest wholemeal, such as "Artox," for example, should be
+used for making bread, etc. The ordinary coarse wholemeals are apt to
+produce intestinal irritation.
+
+_Cracked wheat_, soaked overnight in water and boiled for a couple of
+hours, is a favourite prescription of American writers for habitual
+constipation. It may be obtained at most large "Food-Reform" stores.
+
+
+_Bran Tea._
+
+Nervous or anæmic persons will derive great benefit from a course of
+bran tea. It is made as follows:--To every cup of bran allow 2 cups
+distilled water. Well wash the bran in cold water; it is generally full
+of dust. Put in a saucepan with the cold distilled water, cover tightly,
+and boil for thirty minutes. Strain, and flavour with sugar and lemon
+juice to taste. Take a teacupful night and morning.
+
+
+
+
+PART III.--INDICES
+
+
+
+
+INDEX TO DISEASES AND REMEDIES
+
+
+ABSCESS--                                   PAGE
+    Parsley                                   58
+
+ACID DYSPEPSIA--
+    Apple                                     18
+
+ANÆMIA--
+    Banana                                    22
+    Barley                                    23
+    Bran                                      77
+    Lentil                                    27
+    Spinach                                   72
+    Strawberry                                72
+    Water-cress                               31
+
+ASTHMA--
+    Orange                                    57
+
+BLACKHEADS--
+    Lemon                                     46
+
+BOILS--
+    Green Figs                                38
+
+BOWEL IMPACTION--
+    Pine-apple                                63
+
+BRAIN FAG--
+    Apple                                     16
+
+BRONCHITIS--
+    Onion                                     54
+    Radish                                    67
+
+BRUISES--
+    Banana                                    23
+
+BURNS--
+    Beet                                      28
+    Potato                                    66
+
+CANCER--
+    Cinnamon                                  32
+    Lemon                                     46
+    Parsley                                   58
+
+CHEST AFFECTIONS--
+    Almond                                    15
+    Orange                                    57
+
+CHILBLAINS--
+    Lemon                                     46
+    Onion                                     54
+
+CHOLERA--
+    Coffee                                    34
+
+COLDS--
+    Black Currant                             26
+    Elderberry                                36
+
+COLIC--
+    Caraway Seed                              29
+    Onion                                     54
+
+CONSTIPATION--
+    Brazil Nut                                26
+    Cracked Wheat                             77
+    Olive Oil                                 53
+    Onion                                     54
+
+CONSUMPTION--
+    Cabbage, etc.                             28
+    Carrot                                    30
+    Cinnamon                                  33
+    Cresses                                   31
+    Date                                      34
+    Grape                                  2, 40
+    Orange                                    57
+    Pea Nut                                   60
+
+CORNS--
+    Lemon                                     46
+
+COUGHS--
+    Black Currant                             26
+    Elderberry                                36
+    Turnip                                    75
+
+DIARRHOEA--
+    Blackberry                                24
+    Raspberry                                 68
+
+DIPHTHERIA--
+    Lemon                                     46
+    Pine-apple                                60
+
+DYSPEPSIA--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Celery                                    31
+    Pea Nut                                   60
+
+ECZEMA--
+    Lavender                                  44
+    Walnut                                    75
+
+EPILEPSY--
+    Parsley                                   58
+
+EYE, INFLAMMATION OF--
+    Apple                                     18
+
+FEVER--
+    Apple                                     19
+    Barley                                    23
+    Elderberry                                37
+    Grape                                     40
+    Lemon                                     44
+
+FLATULENCE--
+    Thyme                                     75
+
+FRECKLES--
+    Lemon                                     46
+
+GALL STONE--
+    Olive Oil                                 53
+
+GASTRITIS--
+    Banana                                    20
+    Barley                                    23
+
+GOUT--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Carrot                                    30
+    Celery                                    31
+    Grape                                     40
+    Lemon                                     44
+    Potato                                    66
+    Spinach                                   73
+    Strawberry                                72
+    Walnut                                    76
+
+HÆMORRHAGE--
+    Nettle                                    47
+
+HEADACHE--
+    Lavender                                  44
+    Orange                                    57
+    Thyme                                     75
+
+HEART, PALPITATION OF--
+    Asparagus                                 20
+    Lemon                                     46
+
+HYSTERIA--
+    Caraway Seed                              29
+    Orange Pips                               57
+    Thyme                                     75
+
+INDIGESTION--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Celery                                    31
+    Pea Nut                                   60
+
+INEBRIETY--
+    Apple                                     19
+
+INFLAMMATION--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Banana                                    20
+    Barley                                    23
+    Green Gooseberry                          43
+
+INFLUENZA--
+    Cinnamon                                  33
+    Orange                                    56
+
+IRRITABILITY--
+    Prune                                     65
+
+KIDNEY DISEASE--
+    Parsley                                   58
+
+LIVER COMPLAINTS--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Carrot                                    31
+    Grape                                     40
+    Lemon                                     44
+    Red Gooseberry                            43
+    Tomato                                    73
+    White Beet                                28
+
+MALARIA--
+    Grape                                     41
+    Lemon                                     44
+    Orange                                    56
+
+MELANCHOLY--
+    Thyme                                     75
+
+MENSTRUAL OBSTRUCTION--
+    Parsley                                   57
+
+NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA--
+    Celery                                    31
+
+NERVOUS EXCITEMENT--
+    Onion                                     54
+    Sage                                      71
+
+NERVOUS EXHAUSTION--
+    Apple                                     17
+
+NEURALGIA--
+    Seville Orange                            57
+
+PALPITATION OF HEART--
+    Asparagus                                 20
+    Lemon                                     46
+
+PARALYSIS--
+    Lavender                                  44
+
+PERITONITIS--
+    Banana                                    20
+
+PILES--
+    Elderberry                                37
+
+PNEUMONIA--
+    Cinnamon                                  33
+    Orange                                    56
+
+PULMONARY COMPLAINTS--
+    Cabbage, etc.                             28
+    Carrot                                    30
+    Grape                             1 _et seq_
+    Sage                                      71
+
+RHEUMATISM--
+    Asparagus                                 20
+    Cabbage, etc.                             29
+    Celery                                    31
+    Cress                                     31
+    Lemon                                     44
+    Radish                                    67
+    Strawberry                                72
+    Walnut                                    76
+
+RICKETS--
+    Potato                                    66
+
+SCURVY--
+    Cress                                     31
+    Lemon                                     44
+    Potato                                    66
+    Raspberry                                 68
+    Turnip                                    74
+
+SKIN ERUPTIONS--
+    Nettle                                    47
+    Radish                                    67
+
+SLEEPLESSNESS--
+    Lettuce                                   46
+    Onion                                     54
+
+SMALLPOX--
+    Grapes                                    41
+
+SORES--
+    Beet                                      28
+
+SORE THROAT--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Black Currant                             26
+    Pine-apple                                64
+
+SPRAINS--
+    Banana                                    23
+    Caraway Seed                              29
+
+STINGS--
+    Onion                                     54
+
+STONE--
+    Apple                                     17
+    Pear                                      59
+    Radish                                    67
+    Strawberry                                72
+
+TYPHOID FEVER--
+    Banana                                    20
+
+UTERINE DISEASE--
+    Red Beet                                  28
+
+ULCERS--
+    Carrot                                    30
+    Tomato                                    74
+
+VICIOUSNESS--
+    Prune                                     65
+
+WEAK DIGESTION--
+    Chestnut                                  32
+    Grape                                     40
+    Lettuce                                   46
+    Pine Kernal                               64
+    Rice                                      69
+    Strawberry                                72
+
+WHOOPING COUGH--
+    Radish                                    67
+
+WORMS--
+    Carrot                                    30
+    Cocoanut                                  33
+    Olive Oil                                 53
+    Walnut                                    76
+
+
+
+
+INDEX TO PRESCRIPTIONS AND RECIPES
+
+
+Almond Soup                                   15
+Apple Tea                                     19
+Banana and Barley Injection                   21
+Barley Water                                  23
+Blackberry Tea                                25
+Blackberry Jelly                              25
+Black Currant Tea                             26
+Bran Tea                                      77
+Cinnamon Tea                                  33
+Chestnuts, Boiled                             32
+Elderberry Leaf Poultice                      37
+Figs, Steamed                                 39
+Fruit Juice, Preserved                        36
+Lemon Prescription for Malaria                45
+Marmalade Tonic                               57
+Nut Cream                                     50
+Onion Juice                                   55
+Onion Poultice                                55
+Orange Pips, Dried                            57
+Pine-apple Juice                              60
+Potato Lotion                                 67
+Prune Tea                                     65
+Radish Juice                                  68
+Raisin Tea                                    42
+Rice, Boiled                                  69
+Sage Tea                                      71
+Turnip Juice                                  75
+Walnut Leaf Tea                               76
+
+
+
+
+INDEX--MISCELLANEOUS
+
+
+Artistic Faculties, to Strengthen             20
+Cabbage, for Nursing Mothers                  28
+Caraway Seeds, promote Secretion of Milk      29
+Cresses, good for Brain                       31
+Lavender, prevents Flies, Fleas, and Moths    44
+Nuts, true Substitute for Flesh Meat          47
+Nut Butter Machine                            49
+Olive Oil, Tests for Purity of                52
+Pulse, not Indigestible                       27
+Tomato, not bad for Cancer or Gout            73
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ADVERTISEMENTS
+
+
++A WORD ABOUT THE ADVERTISEMENTS.+
+
+Readers of the Healthy Life Booklets will doubtless be glad to know that
+only those advertisements of foods that can be conscientiously
+recommended are accepted. This necessarily limits the number of
+advertisements, but has the advantage of making them really serviceable.
+
+The publisher has no pecuniary interest in any of the firms mentioned,
+and therefore feels quite free to give his testimony to the worth of
+their goods.
+
+
++"Artox" Flour.+
+
+This is so finely ground that, although wholemeal, it may be used in the
+manufacture even of sponge cake, while for bread it is unsurpassable.
+
+
++Digestive Tea.+
+
+Tea-drinking is considered to be very injurious, but the habit is
+difficult, apparently impossible, for some people to overcome, and
+therefore the Universal Digestive Tea supplies a real need. A tea minus
+tannin is a boon to everyone, but especially to the sufferers from
+dyspepsia and nervous complaints.
+
+
++Fry's Cocoa.+
+
+This cocoa has stood the test of time and chemists for so long now as
+hardly to need further testimony as to its genuineness.
+
+
++International Health Association.+
+
+They supply thoroughly pure foods, and readers will do well to take
+advantage of their offer to send samples to test for themselves.
+
+
++Mapleton's Nut Foods.+
+
+Their Nutter is quite the best vegetable cooking fat on the market, and
+makes excellent pastry. A pie-crust made of Nutter and "Artox" Flour is
+a revelation to the uninitiated. The Nut Butters are also very good,
+especially the uncoloured varieties labelled "Wallaceite."
+
+
++Shearns.+
+
+Mr. Shearn is the acknowledged "Fruit King" of the Food Reform movement.
+The grand fruit shop in Tottenham Court Road, to which is now added a
+vegetarian restaurant, is familiar to most Food Reformers who live in or
+near London. Others will be glad to know of Shearn's Stores where all
+the latest "Food Reform" specialities are stocked. A catalogue can be
+obtained on application.
+
+
++Wallace Bakery.+
+
+This is the only bakery in existence which supplies bread, cakes, etc.,
+made with very fine wholemeal flour, and entirely free from yeast and
+chemicals. The Wallace Bakery is a boon and a blessing to Physical
+Regenerationists.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++A HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLET FREE+
+
+It has many valuable recipes for Food Reformers and Invalids, and tells
+all about
+
++"ARTOX" WHOLE MEAL,+
+
+which is made from the finest whole wheat, and is so finely ground by
+old-fashioned stone mills that it can be digested by the most delicate.
+It makes the most delicious Bread, Cakes, Biscuits, and Pastry, and is
+an entire safeguard against Constipation when used regularly in place of
+white flour. It is strongly recommended by _The Lancet_ and by Mrs.
+Leigh Hunt Wallace (_Herald of Health_) and is used exclusively in the
+Wallace Bakery. Sold by Health Stores and Grocers everywhere in 7 lb.
+sealed linen bags, or 28 lbs. sent direct for 4s. 6d. carriage paid.
+_Important._--"Artox" Wholemeal is only retailed in our sealed bags, and
+is _not_ sold loose.
+
++APPLEYARDS, LTD.+ (Dept. M.)
+
+Millers, ROTHERHAM.
+
+_Mention Healthy Life Booklets._
+
+[Illustration: Grains of Common Sense for Housewife and Epicure.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++WILL YOU TRY A CUP OF TEA+
+
+that, instead of injuring your nerves and toughening your food, is
+
++Absolutely Safe and Delightful?+
+
+2s. 2d.; 2s. 10d.; and 3s. 6d. per lb.
+
++THE UNIVERSAL DIGESTIVE TEA+ is ordinary Tea treated with oxygen, which
+neutralises the injurious tannin. Every pound of ordinary tea contains
+about two ounces of tannin. Tannin is a powerful astringent subject to
+tan skins into leather. The tannin in ordinary tea tans, or hardens, the
+lining of the digestive organs, also the food eaten. This prevents the
+healthful nourishment of the body, and undoubtedly eventuates in nervous
+disorders.
+
+On receipt of a post card the UNIVERSAL DIGESTIVE TEA CO., Ltd.,
+Colonial Warehouse, Kendal, will send a sample of this Tea and name of
+nearest Agent, also a Descriptive Pamphlet compiled by Albert Broadbent,
+Author of "Science in the Daily Meal," &c. Where no agent, 1 lb. and
+upwards will be sent post free.
+
+_AGENTS WANTED._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++Ideal Foods for Every Day.+
+
+The I.H.A. Health Foods are called Health Foods because they do actually
+build up the body, and make directly for better health all round.
+
+They are Ideal Foods because they are made only from such products as
+wheat, nuts, etc.; because they are thoroughly cooked and easily
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+manufactured with scrupulous care and cleanliness in an ideal factory in
+the open country.
+
+They are ideal foods for every day because they furnish a wide variety
+of dishes at a low cost, and because they are all pleasant to the taste.
+
+The I.H.A. Health Foods are sold by all Health Food Stores, or direct on
+easy terms.
+
+We offer to send you three liberal samples and a beautifully illustrated
+price list, containing full details and many valuable recipes, for 2d.
+stamps, or price list post free on application.
+
+The International Health Association
+
+Limited.
+
+The Factory in the Beech Woods,
+
+Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts.
+
+_Please write for "Food Remedies."_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++A Word about Nut Foods.+
+
+The high value of Nuts has long been known, but until lately no attempt
+has been made to manufacture them in a form available for domestic use.
+This, however, is now changed, as a splendid variety of excellent
+preparations are ready to hand, owing to the enterprise of +Messrs.
+Mapleton+, in the shape of such useful products as +Nutter+ and +Nutter
+Suet+, which supersedes Lard, Suet, and Cooking Butter in the kitchen.
+Also delicious Table Butters--+Walnut+, +Cocoanut+, and +Cashew+--all of
+which are four times as nutritious as Dairy Butter. Other goods are +Nut
+Meat, Nut Gravy, Nut Biscuits, Nut Cakes, Fruitarian Cakes,+ &c. A Post
+Card will bring a Booklet describing these goods, with Recipes for their
+use, on application to
+
+THE MANUFACTURERS:
+
+Mapleton's Nut Food Co., Ltd.
+
+LANCASHIRE
+
+MENTION HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLETS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++A GUIDE TO GOOD THINGS.+
+
+There are thousands of folk all over the country who are beginning to
+feel vaguely that their usual diet is not all it should be, and that it
+tends to produce discomfort and disease. Many of them would be glad to
+make a change if they knew how. Our booklet, "A Guide to Good Things,"
+will help them. It contains an interesting article on "How To Start,"
+and gives a complete menu for a week in which the foods that supply the
+place of the less wholesome fish, bacon, or meat, are clearly indicated.
+
+There are also several pages of delightful recipes that will help to
+gladden the table of any housewife in the kingdom, and in addition there
+is a complete price list of every health food upon the market that can
+be recommended, and of the most up-to-date and novel appliances for
+cooking and preparing food.
+
+There is an all but endless array of breakfast foods--bread, cakes,
+biscuits, etc., etc., that are not only beneficial because of what they
+contain, but are free from the injurious chemical adulterants so largely
+used nowadays.
+
+But send for our booklet and see for yourself what it contains, or if
+you are near give us a call. You may shop, lunch, dine, and take tea
+with us. Our Health Food Stores will supply everything you need for a
+perfect health diet. Our Fruit Stores will supply you with the choicest
+fruit on the most moderate terms, and in large quantities at wholesale
+prices. Our Fruit Luncheon Rooms are the talk of London, and you can get
+a delightful fruit meal amid flowers and palms from 6d.
+
+If you cannot call, send six penny stamps, and in return we will send
+you, together with the booklet, a sample of our Frunut, reg. (a
+preparation of selected nuts and fruit that is as delightful as it is
+sustaining); samples of Stamanut Wholemeal Biscuits (a valuable and most
+economical food), and of our Afternoon Tea Biscuits, and a good sample
+of our Special Pale Roasted Coffee. The whole post free for 6d.
+
+You will be delighted with it all.
+
+Write to-day to B. Shearn & Son, 234, Tottenham Court Road, London, W.
+
+Mention this book.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++A Bakery based on Principle.+
+
+When so many manufactured foods are more or less adulterated--even such
+everyday articles as Bread and Biscuits being no exceptions--it is good
+news to know that Delicious Biscuits, Bread, Cakes, &c., can be obtained
+which are guaranteed, and proved by frequent analysis to be, absolutely
+free from any impurity whatever. The goods referred to are made by
+
++The WALLACE P.R. FOODS Co.,+
+
+which was founded on certain definite scientific principles, and those
+principles are unswervingly applied to every detail of its varied
+activities.
+
+Within its clean and airy precincts are manufactured the famous Barley
+Malt Biscuits (and some thirty other varieties), rich and wholesome
+Cakes, air-raised Bread, pure Preserves, a specially prepared Barley
+Malt Meal, Pale Roasted Coffee, and Stamina Food--this last being the
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+flour used is a very fine wholemeal; the butter and milk are sterilised
+and the water distilled, while all such impurities as Yeast, Baking
+Powder, and Chemicals are strictly avoided.
+
+The experience of thousands proves that the daily use of "WALLACEITE"
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+body and keep it in working order as do no other foods.
+
+They can be obtained from all Health Food Stores.
+
+30 Samples of Delicious Bread, Cakes, and Biscuits, Carriage Paid, 1/6
+
+or Box of Larger Samples, 2/6.
+
+_Interesting explanatory literature Free._
+
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+
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+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[Pg i]</a></span></p>
+
+<h1>FOOD REMEDIES</h1>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h2>HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLETS<br />No. 2.</h2>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[Pg ii]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2>HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLETS</h2>
+
+<blockquote><p><span class="smcap">No. 1. The League against Health.</span></p>
+
+<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;By <span class="smcap">Arnold Eiloart</span>, B.Sc., Ph.D.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">No. 2. Food Remedies</span>.</p>
+
+<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;By <span class="smcap">Florence Daniel</span>.</p>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<i>Ready in September, 1908.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">No. 3. Instead of Drugs.</span></p>
+
+<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;By <span class="smcap">Arnold Eiloart</span>, B.Sc., Ph.D.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">No. 4. Healthy Life Cook Book</span>.</p>
+
+<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;By <span class="smcap">Florence Daniel</span>.</p>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<i>Ready in December, 1908.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">No. 5. Mind</span> <i>versus</i> <span class="smcap">Medicine</span>.</p>
+
+<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;By <span class="smcap">Arnold Eiloart</span>, B.Sc., Ph.D.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">No. 6. Distilled Water</span>.</p>
+
+<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;By <span class="smcap">Florence Daniel</span>.</p></blockquote>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[Pg iii]</a></span></p>
+<h1>FOOD REMEDIES</h1>
+
+<h2>FACTS ABOUT FOODS AND THEIR MEDICINAL USES</h2>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h3>BY</h3>
+
+<h2>FLORENCE DANIEL</h2>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h4>LONDON<br />C. W. DANIEL<br />11 CURSITOR STREET, E.C.<br />1908</h4>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[Pg v]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a><i>PREFACE</i></h2>
+
+<p>There is a sentence in the Talmud to the effect that the Kingdom of God
+is nigh when the teacher gives the name of the author of the information
+that he is passing on. With every desire to fulfil the rabbinical
+precept and acknowledge the sources of this booklet, I find myself in a
+quandary. If I make my acknowledgments duly I must begin with my
+grandmother and Culpeper's Herbal. Following upon those come the results
+of my own and friends' practical experience. After this I should,
+perhaps, give a list of the periodicals from whose pages I have culled
+much helpful information. But<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[Pg vi]</a></span> as space and memory preclude individual
+mention I must content myself with this general acknowledgment. Lastly,
+I desire to record my thanks to Dr. Fernie, whose <i>Meals Medicinal</i>, a
+large and exhaustive collection of facts about food, has afforded not
+the least valuable assistance.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>F. D.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</a></span></p>
+<h2><i>CONTENTS</i></h2>
+
+<div class="index">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#PREFACE">PREFACE.</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<h3><a href="#Part_I_introductory">PART 1.&mdash;INTRODUCTORY</a></h3>
+
+<div class="index">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#Part_I_introductory">While there is Fruit there is Hope</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Fruit_and_the_Teeth">Fruit and the Teeth</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Fruit_is_a_Food">Fruit is Food</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Objections_to_Fruit">Objections to Fruit</a></li>
+<li><a href="#A_Pioneer_of_Food_Remedies">A Pioneer of Food Remedies</a></li>
+<li><a href="#The_Simple_Life">The Simple Life</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Fruit_or_Fasting">Fruit or Fasting</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Acute_Illness">Acute Illness</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<h3><a href="#Part_II_FOODS_AND_THEIR_MEDICINAL_USES">PART II.&mdash;FOODS AND THEIR MEDICINAL USES</a></h3>
+
+<div class="index">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#Almond">Almond</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Asparagus">Asparagus</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Banana">Banana</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Barley">Barley</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Blackberry">Blackberry</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Black_Currant">Black Currant</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Brazil_Nut">Brazil Nuts</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Beans_Peas_and_Lentils">Beans, Peas, and Lentils</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Beet">Beet</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Cabbage">Cabbage</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Caraway_Seed">Caraway Seed</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Carrot">Carrot</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Celery">Celery</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Cresses">Cresses</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Chestnut">Chestnut</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Cinnamon">Cinnamon</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Cocoanut">Cocoanut</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Coffee">Coffee</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Date">Date</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Elderberry">Elderberry</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Fig">Fig</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Grape">Grape</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Gooseberry">Gooseberry</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Lavender">Lavender</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Lettuce">Lettuce</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Nettle">Nettle</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Nuts">Nuts</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Oat">Oat</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Olive">Olive</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Onion">Onion</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Orange">Orange</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Parsley">Parsley</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Pear">Pear</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Pea_Nut">Pea Nut</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Pine-apple">Pine-Apple</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Pine_Kernel">Pine Kernel</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Plum_Prune">Plum, Prune</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Potato">Potatoe</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Radish">Radish</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Raspberry">Raspberry</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Rice">Rice</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Rhubarb">Rhubarb</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Sage">Sage</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Strawberry">Strawberry</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Spinach">Spinach</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Tomato">Tomato</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Turnip">Turnip</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Thyme">Thyme</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Walnuts">Walnuts</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Wheat">Wheat</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<h3><a href="#Part_III_Indices">PART III.&mdash;INDICES</a></h3>
+
+<div class="index">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#INDEX_TO_DISEASES_AND_REMEDIES">Index to Diseases and Remedies</a></li>
+<li><a href="#INDEX_TO_PRESCRIPTIONS_AND_RECIPES">Index to Prescriptions and Recipes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#INDEX_MISCELLANEOUS">Index&mdash;Miscellaneous</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<h3><a href="#ADVERTISEMENTS">ADVERTISEMENTS</a></h3>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p>
+
+<h1>FOOD REMEDIES</h1>
+
+<h2><a name="Part_I_introductory" id="Part_I_introductory"></a><span class="smcap">Part I.&mdash;introductory</span></h2>
+
+<h3><i>While there is Fruit there is hope.</i></h3>
+
+<p>While there is life&mdash;and fruit&mdash;there is hope. When this truth is
+realised by the laity nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand
+professors of the healing art will be obliged to abandon their
+profession and take to fruit-growing for a living.</p>
+
+<p>Many people have heard vaguely of the "grape cure" for diseases arising
+from over-feeding, and the lemon cure for rheumatism, but for the most
+part these "cures" remain mere names. Nevertheless it is almost
+incredible to the uninitiated what may be accomplished by the
+abandonment for a time of every kind of food in favour of fruit. Of
+course, such a proceeding should not be entered upon in a careless or
+random<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span> fashion. Too sudden changes of habit are apt to be attended with
+disturbances that discourage the patient, and cause him to lose patience
+and abandon the treatment without giving it a fair trial. In countries
+where the "grape cure" is practised the patient starts by taking one
+pound of grapes each day, which quantity is gradually increased until he
+can consume six pounds. As the quantity of grapes is increased that of
+the ordinary food is decreased, until at last the patient lives on
+nothing but grapes.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> I have not visited a "grape cure" centre in
+person, but I have read that it is not only persons suffering from the
+effects of over-feeding who find salvation in the "grape cure," but that
+consumptive patients thrive and even put on weight under it.</p>
+
+<p>The <i>Herald of Health</i> stated, some few years back, that in the South of
+France where the "grape cure" is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span> practised consumptive patients are fed
+on grapes alone, and become quite strong and well in a year or two. And
+I have myself known wonderful cures to follow on the adoption of a
+fruitarian dietary in cases of cancer, tumour, gout, eczema, all kinds
+of inflammatory complaints, and wounds that refused to heal.</p>
+
+<p>H. Benjafield, M.B., writing in the <i>Herald of Health</i>, says: "Garrod,
+the great London authority on gout, advises his patients to take
+oranges, lemons, strawberries, grapes, apples, pears, etc. Tardieu, the
+great French authority, maintains that the salts of potash found so
+plentifully in fruits are the chief agents in purifying the blood from
+these rheumatic and gouty poisons.... Dr. Buzzard advises the scorbutic
+to take fruit morning, noon, and night. Fresh lemon juice in the form of
+lemonade is to be his ordinary drink; the existence of diarrh&oelig;a
+should be no reason for withholding it." The writer goes on to show that
+headache, indigestion,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> constipation, and all other complaints that
+result from the sluggish action of bowels and liver can never be cured
+by the use of artificial fruit salts and drugs.</p>
+
+<p>Salts and acids as found in organised forms are quite different in their
+effects to the products of the laboratory, notwithstanding that the
+chemical composition may be shown to be the same. The chemist may be
+able to manufacture a "fruit juice," but he cannot, as yet, manufacture
+the actual fruit. The mysterious life force always evades him. Fruit is
+a vital food, it supplies the body with something over and above the
+mere elements that the chemist succeeds in isolating by analysis. The
+vegetable kingdom possesses the power of directly utilising minerals,
+and it is only in this "live" form that they are fit for the consumption
+of man. In the consumption of sodium chloride (common table salt),
+baking powders, and the whole army of mineral drugs<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> and essences, we
+violate that decree of Nature which ordains that the animal kingdom
+shall feed upon the vegetable and the vegetable upon the mineral.</p>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> This was the original treatment; now other food is added,
+although excellent results were obtained under the old <i>r&eacute;gime</i>.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Fruit_and_the_Teeth" id="Fruit_and_the_Teeth"></a><i>Fruit and the Teeth.</i></h3>
+
+<p>I mention the above because one of the objections that I have heard
+cited against the free use of fruit is that "the acids act injuriously
+upon the teeth." Until I became a vegetarian I used to visit a dentist
+regularly every six months. I had done this for ten years, and nearly
+every tooth in my gums had its gold filling. The last time I visited the
+dentist I told him that I had become a vegetarian, and he replied that
+he rather thought my teeth would decay quicker in future on account of
+an increased consumption of vegetable acids. But from that day, now
+nearly six years ago, to the present time, I have never been near a
+dentist. My teeth seem to have taken a new lease of life. It is a fact<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>
+that the acids in fruit and vegetables so far from injuring the teeth
+benefit them. Many of these acids are strongly antiseptic and actually
+destroy the germs that cause the teeth to decay. On the other hand, they
+do <i>not</i> attack the enamel of the teeth, while inorganic acids do.
+Nothing cleanses the teeth so effectually as to thoroughly chew a large
+and juicy apple.</p>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Fruit_is_a_Food" id="Fruit_is_a_Food"></a><i>Fruit is a Food.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Until quite recently the majority of English-speaking people have been
+accustomed to look upon fruit not as a food, but rather as a sweetmeat,
+to be eaten merely for pleasure, and therefore very sparingly. It has
+consequently been banished from its rightful place at the beginning of
+meals. But fruit is not a "goody," it is a food, and, moreover, a
+complete food. All vegetable foods (in their natural state) contain all
+the elements necessary to form a complete food. At a pinch human life
+might<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> be supported on any one of them. I say "at a pinch" because if
+the nuts cereals and pulses were ruled out of the dietary it would, for
+most people, be deficient in fat and proteid (the flesh and
+muscle-forming element). Nevertheless, fruit alone <i>will</i> sustain life
+if taken in large quantities with small output of energy on the part of
+the person living upon it, as witness the "grape cure."<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> The
+percentage of proteid in grapes is particularly high for fruit.</p>
+
+<p>Those people who desire to make a fruitarian dietary their daily
+<i>r&eacute;gime</i> cannot do better than take the advice of O. Hashnu Hara, an
+American writer. He says: "Every adult requires from twelve to sixteen
+ounces of dry food, <i>free from water</i>, daily. To supply this a quarter
+of a pound of <i>shelled</i> nuts and three-quarters of a pound of any dried
+fruit must be used. In<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> addition to this, from two to three pounds of
+any <i>fresh fruit</i> in season goes to complete the day's allowance. These
+quantities should be weighed out ... and will sustain a full-grown man
+in perfect health and vitality. The quantity of ripe fresh fruit may be
+slightly increased in summer, with a corresponding decrease in the dried
+fruit."</p>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Recent years have witnessed a modification of the original
+cure. Other food is now included, but I have not heard that the results
+are better.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Objections_to_Fruit" id="Objections_to_Fruit"></a><i>Objections to Fruit.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Some vegetarians object that it is possible to eat too much fruit, and
+recommend caution in the use of it to people of nervous temperament, or
+those who seem predisposed to skin ailments. It is true that the
+consumption of large quantities of fruit may appear to render the
+nervous person more irritable, and to increase the external
+manifestations of a skin disease. But in the latter event the fruit is
+merely assisting Nature to throw the disease out and off more quickly,
+while in the former case the real cause lies not in the fruit but in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>
+some nerve irritant, tea, for example, the effects of which are more
+acutely felt under the new <i>r&eacute;gime</i>. The nervous system tends to become
+much more sensitive upon a vegetarian, especially fruitarian, diet, and
+people often attribute their increased nervousness and irritability to
+the diet when it is simply that they now react more quickly to poisons.
+This is not a bad thing, on the contrary, it shows that the system has
+become more alert. Under the old <i>r&eacute;gime</i> we tend to store up poisons
+and impurities in the body, but the effect of a vegetable diet,
+especially when united with the use of distilled water, is to cause all
+our diseases and impurities to be expelled outwards and downwards. Tea
+is a slow poison, and so is coffee except under exceptional conditions
+when it is used as a medicine, and then it should always be
+pale-roasted.</p>
+
+<p>Fruit should always be eaten at the beginning of a meal. Again, when the
+diet consists of a mixture of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> cooked and uncooked foods, the uncooked
+should always be eaten first. Also when the meal consists of two
+courses, a sweet and a savoury dish, sufferers from indigestion should
+try taking the sweet course first. I have known several cases where this
+simple expedient has resulted in a complete cessation of the discomfort
+of which the patient complained.</p>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h3><a name="A_Pioneer_of_Food_Remedies" id="A_Pioneer_of_Food_Remedies"></a><i>A Pioneer of Food Remedies.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The pioneer, in England, of the treatment of all sorts and conditions of
+disease by means of a vegetable (chiefly fruit) dietary was Dr. Lambe, a
+contemporary of the poet Shelley. His last book appeared in 1815, and in
+it and the one preceding are recorded some wonderful cures, especially
+in cases of cancer. It is only fair to add here that in Dr. Lambe's
+opinion no system of cure is completely efficacious so long as the
+patient is allowed to drink the ordinary tap or well water. Distilled
+water was the only drink he advised.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> But he held it better still not to
+drink at all if the necessary liquid could be supplied to the body by
+means of fresh, juicy fruits. He contended that man is not naturally a
+drinking animal; that his thirst is a morbid symptom, the outcome of a
+carnivorous diet and other unwholesome habits. And I think that anyone
+may prove the truth of this for him or herself if he or she will adopt a
+fruitarian dietary and abstain from the use of salt and other
+condiments.</p>
+
+<p>I have cited so out-of-date a personage as Dr. Lambe for two reasons.
+The first is that I know many of the so-called new and unorthodox ideas
+are more likely to appeal to some readers, if it can be shown that they
+originated with a duly qualified medical practitioner who recorded the
+results of his observations and experiments in black and white. The
+second is that the principles and practices of Dr. Lambe are
+incorporated with those of the Physical Regeneration<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> Society, a large
+and ever-increasing body of enthusiasts having its head-quarters in
+London, to whose annals I must refer those readers who desire up-to-date
+instances of the efficacy of the use of fruit in disease. Lack of space
+will not allow me to quote them here.</p>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h3><a name="The_Simple_Life" id="The_Simple_Life"></a><i>The Simple Life.</i></h3>
+
+<p>We hear a great deal about the "Simple Life" and "Returning to Nature"
+nowadays, but most of us are so situated that the proposed simplicity
+simply spells increased complexity. The "vegetarian chop" costs the
+housewife more than double the time and labour involved in preparing its
+fleshly namesake. And when it comes to illness some of the systems of
+bathing and exercising prescribed by the "naturopath" are infinitely
+more troublesome to the patient and his friends than the simple
+expedient of sending for the doctor and taking the prescribed doses. I
+do not want to be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> misunderstood here. I am not condemning treatment
+with water and exercises. On the contrary, I hope to pass on what I have
+learnt about these methods of treatment. But so many people lack the
+time, help, and conveniences necessary to carry them out successfully.
+It is to these that I would say that the patient's cure may be effected
+just as surely, if more slowly, by means of fruit alone.</p>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Fruit_or_Fasting" id="Fruit_or_Fasting"></a><i>Fruit or Fasting.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Treatment of disease by fasting has come into fashion of late, and there
+is really no lack of proof as to the benefits to be obtained from
+abstaining entirely from food for a short period. I know of an elderly
+man who fasts for a fortnight every spring, and gains, not loses, weight
+during the process! He accounts for this by explaining that certain
+stored up, undigested food particles come out and are digested while he
+fasts. Whether this is the correct explana<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>tion I do not know, but the
+fact remains, and it is not by any means a solitary case. Of course, the
+majority of people lose weight when fasting, but this is very quickly
+recovered. Now I do not think fasting should be undertaken recklessly,
+but only under competent direction. But an excellent and safe substitute
+for a fast is an exclusive fruit diet.</p>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Acute_Illness" id="Acute_Illness"></a><i>Acute Illness.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The simplest and quickest method of recovering from attacks of acute
+illness, fevers, inflammatory diseases, etc., is to rest quietly in bed
+in a warm but well-ventilated room, and to take three meals a day of
+fresh ripe fruit, grapes by preference. If the grapes are grown out of
+doors and ripened in the sun so much the better. I have found from two
+to three pounds of grapes per day sufficient. If there is thirst, barley
+water flavoured with lemon juice should be taken between the meals.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a name="Part_II_FOODS_AND_THEIR_MEDICINAL_USES" id="Part_II_FOODS_AND_THEIR_MEDICINAL_USES"></a><span class="smcap">Part II.&mdash;FOODS AND THEIR MEDICINAL USES</span></h2>
+
+<h3><a name="Almond" id="Almond"></a><i>Almond.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Almond soup is an excellent substitute for beef-tea for convalescents.
+It is made by simply blanching and pounding a quarter of a pound of
+sweet almonds with half a pint of milk, or vegetable stock. Another pint
+of milk or stock is then to be added and the whole warmed. After this
+add another pint and a half of stock if the soup is to be a vegetable
+one, or rice water if milk has been used.</p>
+
+<p>An emulsion of almonds is useful in chest affections. It is made by well
+macerating the nuts in a nut butter machine, and mixing with orange or
+lemon juice.</p>
+
+<p>Almonds should always be blanched, that is, skinned by pouring boiling
+water on the nuts and allowing them to soak for one minute, after which
+the skins are easily removed. The latter possess irritating properties.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Bitter almonds should not be used as a food. They contain a poison
+identical with prussic acid.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Apple" id="Apple"></a><i>Apple.</i></h3>
+
+<p>It is hardly possible to take up any newspaper or magazine now a days
+without happening on advertisements of patent medicines whose chief
+recommendation is that they "contain phosphorus." They are generally
+very expensive, but the reader is assured that they are worth ten times
+the price asked on account of their wonderful properties as nerve and
+brain foods. The proprietors of these concoctions seemingly flourish
+like green bay trees and spend many thousands of pounds per annum in
+advertising. From which it may be deduced that sufferers from nervous
+exhaustion and brain fag number millions. And surely only a sufferer
+from brain fag would suffer himself to be led blindly into wasting his
+money, and still further injuring his health, by buying and swallowing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span>
+drugs about whose properties and effects he knows absolutely nothing.
+How much simpler, cheaper, and more enjoyable to eat apples!</p>
+
+<p>The apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other
+fruit or vegetable. For this reason it is an invaluable nerve and brain
+food. Sufferers from nerve and brain exhaustion should eat at least two
+apples <i>at the beginning of each meal</i>. At the same time they should
+avoid tea and coffee, and supply their place with barley water or bran
+tea flavoured with lemon juice, or even apple tea.</p>
+
+<p>Apples are also invaluable to sufferers from the stone or calculus. It
+has been observed that in cider countries where the natural unsweetened
+cider is the common beverage, cases of stone are practically unknown.
+Food-reformers do not deduce from this that the drinking of cider is to
+be recommended, but that even better results may be obtained from eating
+the fresh, ripe fruit.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Apples periodically appear upon the tables of carnivorous feeders in the
+form of apple sauce. This accompanies bilious dishes like roast pork and
+roast goose. The cook who set this fashion was evidently acquainted with
+the action of the fruit upon the liver. All sufferers from sluggish
+livers should eat apples.</p>
+
+<p>Apples will afford much relief to sufferers from gout. The malic acid
+contained in them neutralises the chalky matter which causes the gouty
+patient's sufferings.</p>
+
+<p>Apples, when eaten ripe and without the addition of sugar, diminish
+acidity in the stomach. Certain vegetable salts are converted into
+alkaline carbonates, and thus correct the acidity.</p>
+
+<p>An old remedy for weak or inflamed eyes is an apple poultice. I am told
+that in Lancashire they use rotten apples for this purpose, but
+personally I should prefer them sound.</p>
+
+<p>A good remedy for a sore or relaxed throat is to take a raw ripe apple
+and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> scrape it to a fine pulp with a silver teaspoon. Eat this pulp by
+the spoonful, very slowly, holding it against the back of the throat as
+long as possible before swallowing.</p>
+
+<p>A diet consisting chiefly of apples has been found an excellent cure for
+inebriety. Health and strength may be fully maintained upon fine
+wholemeal unleavened bread, pure dairy or nut butter, and apples.</p>
+
+<p>Apple water or apple tea is an excellent drink for fever patients.</p>
+
+<p>Apples possess tonic properties and provoke appetite for food. Hence the
+old-fashioned custom of eating an apple before dinner.</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>Apple Tea.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The following are two good recipes for apple tea:&mdash;(1) Take 2 sound
+apples, wash, but do not peel, and cut into thin slices. Add some strips
+of lemon rind. Pour on 1 pint of boiling water (distilled). Strain when
+cold. (2) Bake 2 apples. Pour over them 1 pint boiling water. Strain
+when cold.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p>
+
+<h3><a name="Asparagus" id="Asparagus"></a><i>Asparagus.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Asparagus is said to strengthen and develop the artistic faculties. It
+also calms palpitation of the heart. It is very helpful to rheumatic
+patients on account of its salts of potash. It should be steamed, not
+boiled, otherwise part of the valuable salts are lost.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Banana" id="Banana"></a><i>Banana.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The banana is invaluable in inflammation of all kinds. For this reason
+it is very useful in cases of typhoid fever, gastritis, peritonitis,
+etc., and may constitute the only food allowed for a time.</p>
+
+<p>Not only does it actually subdue the inflammation of the intestines,
+but, in the opinion of at least one authority, as it consists of 95 per
+cent. nutriment, it does not possess sufficient waste matter to irritate
+the inflamed spots.</p>
+
+<p>But great care should be taken in its administration. The banana should
+be <i>thoroughly sound and ripe</i>,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> and all the stringy portion carefully
+removed. It should then be mashed and beaten to a cream. In severe cases
+I think it is better to give this neat, but if not liked by the patient
+a little lemon juice, well mixed in, may render it more acceptable. It
+may also be taken with fresh cream.</p>
+
+<p>A friend who has had a very wide experience in illness told me that she
+was once hurriedly sent for at night to a girl suffering from
+peritonitis. Not knowing what she might, or might not, find in the way
+of remedies when she arrived at her destination, my friend took with her
+some strong barley water, bananas, and an enema syringe. She found the
+girl lying across the bed screaming, obviously in agony. First of all my
+friend administered a warm water enema. A pint of plain warm water was
+injected first, and after this had come away as much warm water as could
+be got in was injected and then allowed to come away. The object of this
+was to thoroughly wash out<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> the bowels. Then the barley water was warmed,
+the bananas mashed, beaten to cream, and mixed in with the barley water.
+A soothing nutrient lotion was thus prepared, and as much as the patient
+could bear comfortably was injected in the bowel and retained as long as
+possible. The effect was magical. The pain subsided, and the patient
+ultimately recovered.</p>
+
+<p>In the absence of <i>perfectly</i> ripe bananas, baked bananas may be used.
+But, although better than no fruit at all, cooked fruit is never so
+valuable as the fresh fruit, if only the latter be perfectly ripe.
+Bananas should be baked in their skins, and the stringy pieces carefully
+removed before eating. From twenty minutes to half an hour's slow
+cooking is required.</p>
+
+<p>Bananas are excellent food for an&aelig;mic persons on account of the iron
+they contain. A very palatable way of taking them is with fresh orange
+juice.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>A comparatively old-fashioned remedy, for sprained or bruised places
+that show a tendency to become inflamed is to apply a plaster of banana
+skin.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Barley" id="Barley"></a><i>Barley.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Barley is excellent food for the an&aelig;mic and nervous on account of its
+richness in iron and phosphoric acid. It is also useful in fevers and
+all inflammatory diseases, on account of its soothing properties. From
+the earliest times barley water has been the recognised drink of the
+sick.</p>
+
+<h3><i>Barley Water.</i></h3>
+
+<p>When using pearl barley for making barley water it must be well washed.
+The fine white dust that adheres to it is most unwholesome. For this
+reason the cook is generally directed to first boil the barley for five
+minutes, and throw this water away. But in this way some of the valuable
+properties are thrown away with the dirt. The best results are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> obtained
+by well washing it in cold water, but this must be done over and over
+again. Half-a-dozen waters will not be too many. After the last washing
+the water should be perfectly clear.</p>
+
+<p>When barley water is being used for curative purposes it should be
+strong. The following recipe is an excellent one. A &frac12; pint of barley
+to 2&frac12; pints water (distilled if possible). Boil for three hours, or
+until reduced to 2 pints. Strain and add 4 teaspoonfuls fresh lemon
+juice. Sweeten to taste with pure cane sugar.</p>
+
+<p>Fine Scotch barley is to be preferred to the pearl barley if it can be
+obtained.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Blackberry" id="Blackberry"></a><i>Blackberry.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Fresh blackberries are one of the most effectual cures for diarrh&oelig;a
+known. Mr. Broadbent records the case of a child who was cured by eating
+an abundance of blackberries after five doctors had tried all the known
+remedies in vain.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p>
+
+<h3><i>Blackberry Tea.</i></h3>
+
+<p>In the absence of the fresh fruit a tea made of blackberry jelly and hot
+water (a large tablespoonful of jelly to half a pint water) will be
+found very useful. A teacupful should be taken at short intervals.</p>
+
+<h3><i>Blackberry Jelly.</i></h3>
+
+<p>To make blackberry jelly get the first fruit of the season if possible,
+and see that it is ripe or it will yield very little juice. Put it into
+the preserving pan, crush it, and allow it to simmer slowly until the
+juice is well drawn out. This will take from three-quarters to one hour.
+Strain through a jelly bag, or fine clean muslin doubled will do. Then
+measure the juice, and to every pint allow &frac34; lb. best cane sugar.
+Return to the pan and boil briskly for from twenty minutes to half an
+hour. Stir with a wooden spoon and keep well skimmed. To test, put a
+little of the jelly on a cold plate, and if it sets when cold it is
+done. While<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> still at boiling point pour into clean, dry, and <i>hot</i>
+jars, and tie down with parchment covers immediately.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Black_Currant" id="Black_Currant"></a><i>Black Currant.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Black currant tea is one of the oldest of old-fashioned remedies for
+sore throats and colds. It is made by pouring half a pint of boiling
+water on to a large tablespoonful of the jelly or jam. To make the jelly
+use the same recipe as for blackberry jelly.</p>
+
+<p>The fresh juice pressed from the fruit is, of course, better than tea
+made from the jelly, but as winter is the season of coughs and colds the
+fruit is least obtainable when most needed.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Brazil_Nut" id="Brazil_Nut"></a><i>Brazil Nut.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Brazil nuts are excellent for constipation. They are also a good
+substitute for suet in puddings. Use 5 oz. nuts to 1 lb. flour. They
+should be grated in a nut mill or finely chopped.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
+
+<h3><a name="Beans_Peas_and_Lentils" id="Beans_Peas_and_Lentils"></a><i>Beans, Peas, and Lentils.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Beans, peas, and lentils are tabooed by the followers of Dr. Haig, the
+gout specialist, on account of the belief that they tend to increase the
+secretion of uric acid. But this evil propensity is stoutly denied by
+other food-reformers. For myself I am inclined to believe that their
+supposed indigestibility, etc., arises from the fact that they are
+generally cooked in hard water. They should be cooked in distilled or
+boiled and filtered rain water. The addition of lemon juice while
+cooking renders them much more digestible.</p>
+
+<p>According to Sir Henry Thomson haricot beans are more easily digested
+than meat by most stomachs. "Consuming weight for weight, the eater
+feels lighter and less oppressed, as a rule, after the leguminous dish;
+while the comparative cost is greatly in favour of the latter."</p>
+
+<p>Lentils are the most easily digested of all the pulse foods, and
+therefore the most suitable for weakly persons.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> A soup made of
+distilled water and red lentils may be taken twice a week with
+advantage. Lentils contain a good percentage of iron, and also
+phosphates.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Beet" id="Beet"></a><i>Beet.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The red beet is useful in some diseases of the womb, while the white
+beet is good for the liver. It is laxative and diuretic. The juice mixed
+with olive oil is also recommended to be applied externally for burns
+and all kinds of running sores.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Cabbage" id="Cabbage"></a><i>Cabbage.</i></h3>
+
+<p>All the varieties of the colewort tribe, including cabbage, cauliflower,
+brussels-sprouts, broccoli, and curly greens, have been celebrated from
+very ancient times for their curative virtues in pulmonary complaints.
+And Athenian doctors prescribed cabbage for nursing mothers. On account
+of the sulphur contained in them cabbages are good for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> rheumatic
+patients. They may be eaten steamed, or, better still, boiled in soft
+water and the broth only taken. The ordinary boiled cabbage is an
+indigestible "windy" vegetable, and should never be eaten.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Caraway_Seed" id="Caraway_Seed"></a><i>Caraway Seed.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Caraway seeds sharpen the vision, promote the secretion of milk, and are
+good against hysterical affections. They are also useful in cases of
+colic. When used to flavour cakes the seeds should be pounded in a
+mortar, especially if children are to partake thereof.</p>
+
+<p>When used medicinally 20 grains of the powdered seeds may be taken in a
+wineglassful of hot water. But for children half an ounce of the bruised
+seeds are to be infused in cold water for six hours, and from 1 to 3
+teaspoonfuls of this water given.</p>
+
+<p>A poultice of crushed caraway seeds moistened with hot water is good for
+sprains.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Caraway seeds are narcotic, and should therefore be used with caution.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Carrot" id="Carrot"></a><i>Carrot.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Carrots are strongly antiseptic. They are said to be mentally
+invigorating and nerve restoring. They have the reputation of being very
+indigestible on account of the fact that they are generally boiled, not
+steamed. When used medicinally it is best to take the fresh, raw juice.
+This is easily obtained by grating the carrot finely on a common penny
+bread grater, and straining and pressing the pulp thus obtained.</p>
+
+<p>Raw carrot juice, or a raw carrot eaten fasting, will expel worms. The
+cooked carrot is useless for this purpose.</p>
+
+<p>A poultice of fresh carrot pulp will heal ulcers.</p>
+
+<p>Fresh carrot juice is also good for consumptives on account of the large
+amount of sugar it contains.</p>
+
+<p>Carrots are very good for gouty<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> subjects and for derangements of the
+liver.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Celery" id="Celery"></a><i>Celery.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Celery is almost a specific for rheumatism, gout, and nervous
+indigestion. The most useful plants for this purpose are small, not too
+rapidly grown nor very highly manured.</p>
+
+<p>It may be eaten raw, or steamed, or in soup. Strong celery broth
+flavoured with parsley is excellent.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Cresses" id="Cresses"></a><i>Cresses.</i></h3>
+
+<p>All the cresses are anti-scorbutic, that is, useful against the scurvy.
+The ancient Greeks also believed them to be good for the brain.</p>
+
+<p>The ordinary "mustard and cress" of our salads is good for rheumatic
+patients, while the water-cress is valuable in cases of tubercular
+disease. An&aelig;mic patients may also eat freely of it on account of the
+iron it contains. Care should be taken, however, from whence it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> is
+procured, as a disease peculiar to sheep but communicable to man may be
+carried by it. It should not be gathered from streams running through
+meadows inhabited by sheep.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Chestnut" id="Chestnut"></a><i>Chestnut.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Chestnuts, when cooked, are valuable food for persons with weak
+digestive powers. They should be put on the fire in a saucepan of cold
+water and cooked for twenty minutes from the time the water first boils.
+John Evelyn, F.R.S., a seventeenth century writer, says of them: "They
+are a lusty and masculine food for rustics at all times, and of better
+nourishment for husbandmen than cole and rusty bacon, yea, or beans to
+boot."</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Cinnamon" id="Cinnamon"></a><i>Cinnamon.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Cinnamon is a very old-fashioned remedy for soothing the pain of
+internal or unbroken cancer. One prescription is the following: Take<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> 1
+lb. of Ceylon sticks. Simmer in a closed vessel with 1 quart of water
+until the liquid is reduced to 1 pint. Pour off without straining, and
+shake or stir well before taking. Take half a pint every twenty-four
+hours. Divide into small doses and take regularly.</p>
+
+<p>Cinnamon has a powerful influence over disease germs, but care must be
+taken to obtain it pure. It is often adulterated with cassia.</p>
+
+<p>Cinnamon tea may be taken with advantage in cases of consumption,
+influenza, and pneumonia.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Cocoanut" id="Cocoanut"></a><i>Cocoanut.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Cocoanut is an old and very efficacious remedy for intestinal worms of
+all kinds. A tablespoonful of freshly-ground cocoanut should be taken at
+breakfast until the cure is complete. The dessicated cocoanut is useless
+for curative purposes.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Coffee" id="Coffee"></a><i>Coffee.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Coffee is a most powerful antiseptic, and therefore very useful<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> as a
+disinfectant. It has been used as a specific against cholera with
+marvellous results, and is useful in all cases of intestinal
+derangement. But only the pale-roasted varieties should be taken, as the
+roasting develops the poisonous, irritating properties. There is
+<i>always</i> danger in the roasting of grains or berries on account of the
+new substances that may be developed.</p>
+
+<p>I do not recommend coffee as a beverage, but as a medicine.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Date" id="Date"></a><i>Date.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The nourishing properties of dates are well known. They are easily
+digested, and for this reason are often recommended to consumptive
+patients.</p>
+
+<p>According to Dr. Fernie half a pound of dates and half a pint of new
+milk will make a satisfying repast for a person engaged in sedentary
+work.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Elderberry" id="Elderberry"></a><i>Elderberry.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The elderberry has fallen into neglect of late years, owing to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> lazy
+and disastrous modern habit of substituting the mineral drugs of the
+chemist for the home-made vegetable remedies of our grandmothers.
+Nevertheless, the elderberry is one of the most ancient and tried of
+medicines, held in such great esteem in Germany that, according to the
+German folk-lore, men should take off their hats in the presence of an
+elder-tree. In Denmark there is a legend to the effect that the trees
+are under the protection of a being known as the Elder-Mother, who has
+been immortalised in one of the fairy tales of Hans Andersen.</p>
+
+<p>The berries of the elder-tree are not palatable enough to be used as a
+common article of food, but in the days when nearly every garden boasted
+its elder-tree few housewives omitted to make elderberry wine in due
+season.</p>
+
+<p>It is not permitted to "food-reformers" to make "wine," but those
+readers who are fortunate<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> enough to possess an elder-tree might well
+preserve the juice of the berries against winter coughs and colds.</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>Preserved Fruit Juice.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The following is E. and B. May's recipe for preserving fruit juice. Put
+the fruit into a preserving-pan, crush it and allow it to simmer slowly
+until the juice is well drawn out. This will take about an hour. Press
+out the juice and strain through a jelly-bag until quite clear. Put the
+juice back into the pan, and to every quart add a quarter of a pound of
+best cane sugar. Stir until dissolved. Put the juice into clean, dry
+bottles. Stand the bottles in a pan of hot water, and when the latter
+has come to the boil allow the bottles to remain in the boiling water
+for fifteen minutes. The idea is to bring the juice inside the bottles
+to boiling point just before sealing up, but not to boil it. See that
+the bottles are <i>full</i>. Cork <i>immediately</i> on taking out of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> pan,
+and then seal up. To seal mix a little plaster of Paris with water and
+spread it well over the cork. Let it come a little below the cork so as
+to exclude all air.</p>
+
+<p>The juice of the elderberry is famous for promoting perspiration, hence
+its efficacy in the cure of colds. Two tablespoonfuls should be taken at
+bed-time in a tumbler of hot water.</p>
+
+<p>The juice of the elderberry is excellent in fevers, and is also said to
+promote longevity.</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>Elderberry Poultice.</i></h3>
+
+<p>"The leaves of the elder, boiled until they are soft, with a little
+linseed oil added thereto," laid upon a scarlet cloth and applied, as
+hot as it can be borne, to piles, has been said to be an infallible
+remedy. Each time this poultice gets cold it must be renewed for "the
+space of an hour." At the end of this time the final dressing is to be
+"bound on," and the patient "put warm to bed." If necessary the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> whole
+operation is to be repeated; but the writer assures us that "this hath
+not yet failed at the first dressing to cure the disease." If any reader
+desires to try the experiment I would suggest that the leaves be steamed
+rather than boiled, and pure olive oil used in the place of linseed oil.
+It must also be remembered that no outward application can be expected
+to effect a permanent cure, since the presence of piles indicates an
+effort of Nature to clear out some poison from the system. But if this
+expulsion is assisted by appropriate means the pain may well be
+alleviated by external applications. (Pepper should be avoided by
+sufferers from piles.)</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Fig" id="Fig"></a><i>Fig.</i></h3>
+
+<p>A "lump of figs" laid on the boil of King Hezekiah, as recorded in 2
+Kings xx. 7, brought about that monarch's recovery. The figs used were
+doubtless ripe figs, not the dried figs of our grocers.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"This fruit," says Dr. Fernie, "is soft, easily digested, and corrective
+of strumous disease." The large blue fig may be grown in England, in the
+milder parts and under a warm wall. The fresh figs were rarely seen at
+one time outside of the large "high-class" fruit shops, but for the last
+year or two I have seen them peddled in the streets of London like
+apples and oranges in due season.</p>
+
+<p>Green figs (not unripe) were commonly eaten by Roman gladiators, which
+is surely a sufficient tribute to the fruit's strength-giving qualities.</p>
+
+<p>The best way of preparing dried figs for eating is to wash them very
+quickly in warm water, and steam for twenty minutes or until tender.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Grape" id="Grape"></a><i>Grape.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The special value of the grape lies in the fact that it is a very quick
+repairer of bodily waste, the grape sugar being taken immediately into
+the circulation without previous di<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span>gestion. For this reason is grape
+juice the best possible food for fever patients, consumptives, and all
+who are in a weak and debilitated condition. The grapes should be well
+chewed, the juice and pulp swallowed, and the skin and stones rejected.</p>
+
+<p>In countries where the grape cure is practised, consumptive patients are
+fed on the sweeter varieties of grape, while those troubled with liver
+complaints, acid gout, or other effects of over-feeding, take the less
+sweet kinds.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Fernie deprecates the use of grapes for the ordinary gouty or
+rheumatic patient, but with all due deference to that learned authority,
+I do not believe the fruit exists that is not beneficial to the gouty
+person. One of the most gouty and rheumatic people I know, a vegetarian
+who certainly never over-feeds himself, derives great benefit from a few
+days' almost exclusive diet of grapes.</p>
+
+<p>Cream of tartar, a potash salt obtained from the crust formed upon
+bottles and casks by grape juice when<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> it is undergoing fermentation in
+the process of becoming wine, is often used as a medicine. It has been
+cited as an infallible specific in cases of smallpox, but I do not
+recommend its use, as it probably gets contaminated with other
+substances during the process of manufacture. In any case its value
+cannot be compared with the fresh, ripe fruit. I have little doubt but
+that an exclusive diet of grapes, combined with warmth, proper bathing,
+and the absence of drugs, would suffice to cure the most malignant case
+of smallpox.</p>
+
+<p>Sufferers from malaria may use grapes with great benefit. For this
+purpose the grapes, with the skins and stones, should be well pounded in
+a mortar and allowed to stand for three hours. The juice should then be
+strained off and taken. Or persons with good teeth may eat the grapes,
+including the skins and stones, if they thoroughly macerate the latter.</p>
+
+<p>In the absence of fresh grapes raisin-tea is a restoring and nourish<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span>ing
+drink. Dr. Fernie notes that it is of the same proteid value as milk, if
+made in the proportions given below. It is much more easily digested
+than milk, and therefore of great use in gastric complaints. Sufferers
+from chronic gastritis could not do better than make raisin-tea their
+sole drink, and bananas their only food for a time.</p>
+
+<h3><i>Raisin Tea.</i></h3>
+
+<p>To make raisin-tea, take half a pound of good raisins and wash well, but
+quickly, in lukewarm water. Cut up roughly and put into the
+old-fashioned beef-tea jar with a quart of <i>distilled</i> or boiled and
+filtered <i>rain</i> water. Cook for four hours, or until the liquid is
+reduced to 1 pint. Scald a fine hair sieve and press through it all
+except the skins and stones. If desired a little lemon juice may be
+added.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Gooseberry" id="Gooseberry"></a><i>Gooseberry.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The juice of green gooseberries<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> "cureth all inflammations," while the
+red gooseberry is good for bilious subjects. But it has been said that
+gooseberries are not good for melancholy persons.</p>
+
+<p>Gooseberries are an excellent "spring medicine."</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Lavender" id="Lavender"></a><i>Lavender.</i></h3>
+
+<p>It is very much to be regretted that the nerve-soothing vegetable
+perfumes of our grandmothers have been superseded, for the most part, by
+the cheap mineral products of the laboratory. Scents really prepared
+from the flowers that give them their names are expensive to make, and
+consequently high-priced. The cheap scents are all mineral concoctions,
+and their use is more or less injurious. A penny-worth of dried lavender
+flowers in a muslin bag is even cheaper to buy, inoffensive to
+smell&mdash;which is more than can be said of cheap manufactured scents&mdash;and
+possesses medicinal properties.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Lavender flowers were formerly used for their curative virtues in all
+disorders of the head and nerves.</p>
+
+<p>An oil, prepared by infusing the crushed lavender flowers in olive oil,
+is recommended for anointing palsied limbs, and at one time a spirit was
+prepared from lavender flowers which was known as "palsy drops."</p>
+
+<p>A tea made with hot water and lavender tops will relieve the headache
+that comes from fatigue.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Fernie advises 1 dessertspoonful per day of pure lavender water for
+eczema.</p>
+
+<p>The scent of lavender will keep away flies, fleas, and moths.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Lemon" id="Lemon"></a><i>Lemon.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Lemons are invaluable in cases of gout, malaria, rheumatism, and scurvy.
+They are also useful in fevers and liver complaints.</p>
+
+<p>I have found the juice of one lemon taken in a little hot water remove
+dizzy feelings in the head, accompanied by specks and lights dancing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>
+before the eyes, consequent upon the liver being out of order, in half
+an hour.</p>
+
+<p>The juice of a lemon in hot water may be taken night and morning with
+advantage by sufferers from rheumatism. In the "lemon cure" for gout and
+rheumatism, the patients begin with one lemon per day and increase the
+quantity until they arrive at a dozen or more. But I think this is
+carrying it to excess. Dr. Fernie recommends the juice of one lemon
+mixed with an equal proportion of hot water, to be taken pretty
+frequently, in cases of rheumatic fever.</p>
+
+<p>A prescription for malaria, given in the <i>Lancet</i>, is the following:
+"Take a full-sized lemon, cut it in thin transverse slices, rind and
+all, boil these down in an earthenware jar containing a pint and a half
+of water, until the decoction is reduced to half a pint. Let this cool
+on the window-sill overnight, and drink it off in the morning."</p>
+
+<p>A Florentine doctor discovered that fresh lemon juice will alleviate<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span>
+the pain of cancerous ulceration of the tongue. His patient sucked
+slices of lemon.</p>
+
+<p>A German doctor found that fresh lemon juice kills the diptheria
+bacillus, and advises a gargle of diluted lemon juice to diptheric
+patients. Such a gargle is excellent for sore throat.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Fernie recommends lemon juice for nervous palpitation of the heart.</p>
+
+<p>Lemon juice rubbed on to corns will eventually do away with them, and if
+applied to unbroken chilblains will effect a cure.</p>
+
+<p>Lemon juice is also an old remedy for the removal of freckles and
+blackheads from the face. It should be rubbed in at bedtime, after
+washing with warm water.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Lettuce" id="Lettuce"></a><i>Lettuce.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Lettuce is noted for its sedative properties, although these are not
+great in the large, highly-manured, commercial specimens. It is very
+easily digested, and may, therefore,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> be eaten by those with whom salads
+disagree in the ordinary way.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Nettle" id="Nettle"></a><i>Nettle.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The tender tops of young nettles picked in the spring make a delicious
+vegetable, somewhat resembling spinach. They are excellent for sufferers
+from gout and skin eruptions.</p>
+
+<p>Fresh nettle juice is prescribed in doses of from 1 to 2 tablespoonfuls
+for loss of blood from the lungs, nose, or internal organs.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Nuts" id="Nuts"></a><i>Nuts.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Nuts are the true substitute for flesh meat. They contain everything in
+the way of nourishment that meat contains, minus the poisonous
+constituents of the latter. They are very rich in proteid (flesh and
+muscle former) and fat. In addition they possess all the constituents
+that go to make up a perfect food. Nuts and water form a complete
+dietary, although I do not suggest that any reader<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> should try it. If he
+did so he would probably eat too many nuts, not realising how great an
+amount of nourishment is contained in a concentrated form. No one should
+eat more than a quarter of a pound of nuts per day, in addition to other
+food. A pound per day would be more than sufficient if no other food
+were taken. I have little doubt but that the diet of the future will
+consist solely of nuts and fresh fruit. After all it is the food most
+favoured by monkeys, and our teeth and digestive apparatus more nearly
+resemble those of the monkey than the carnivorous and herbivorous
+animals so many of us seemingly prefer to imitate.</p>
+
+<p>The chief objection to nuts is supposed to be on account of their
+indigestibility. But this has its foundation, not in the nut, but in the
+manner of eating it. I recommend all those people who find nuts
+indigestible to pay a visit to the Zoo and see how the monkey eats his
+nuts. He chews and chews<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> and chews. And after that he chews!</p>
+
+<p>I know, alas! that the majority of people do not possess teeth like the
+monkey, and to these I can only suggest that they macerate their nuts in
+a nut butter machine. There are several of these machines on the market,
+and they are stocked by all large "Food-Reform" provision dealers. They
+cost anything from six or seven shillings. The daily allowance of nuts
+may be thoroughly macerated and eaten with fruit in the place of cream.
+Ordinary people may use a nut-mill, which flakes, not macerates, the
+nuts. But people with bad teeth and a weak digestion will do better to
+invest in a nut butter machine. I may add that the nuts will not
+macerate properly unless they are crisp, and to this end they must be
+put in a warm oven for a short time, just before grinding. I have found
+new, English-grown walnuts crisp enough without this preparation. But if
+the nuts are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> <i>not</i> crisp enough they will simply clog the machine.</p>
+
+<p>Now to our nuts! Almonds are the most nourishing. Next in order come
+walnuts, hazel or cob nuts, and Brazil nuts. The proteid value of these
+three does not differ much. After these come the chestnut and cocoanut,
+and lastly we have the pine kernel. Speaking very roughly, we may liken
+walnuts, hazel nuts, and Brazil nuts to beef for flesh and
+muscle-forming value, while pine kernels correspond more nearly to fish.
+Almonds are nearly double the value of beef.</p>
+
+<h3><i>Nut Cream.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Doctor Fernie recommends the following nut-cream for brain-workers.
+Pound in a mortar, or mince finely, 3 blanched almonds, 2 walnuts, 2
+ounces of pine kernels. Steep overnight in orange or lemon juice.</p>
+
+<p>It should be made fresh daily, and may be used in place of butter.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p>
+
+<h3><a name="Oat" id="Oat"></a><i>Oat.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The oat is generally cited as the most nourishing of all the cereals,
+and a good nerve food. The fine oatmeal gruel of our grandmothers has
+gone almost entirely out of fashion, but its use might be revived with
+advantage. Like wheat, it is a complete food. A good preparation of
+groats (ground oats from which the husk has been entirely removed) may
+be taken by those who find other preparations indigestible.</p>
+
+<p>Some persons seem unable to take oatmeal, its use being followed by a
+skin eruption. This is supposed to be due to a special constituent
+called "avenin," the existence of which, however, is denied by some
+authorities.</p>
+
+<p>There is little doubt but that persons of weak digestive powers and
+sedentary habits cannot digest porridge comfortably. In any case
+quickly-cooked porridge is an abomination.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span></p>
+
+<h3><a name="Olive" id="Olive"></a><i>Olive.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The chief use of the olive, at least in this country, consists in the
+oil expressed from it. Unfortunately our so-called olive oil is
+generally cotton-seed oil. Captain Diamond of San Francisco, aged 111,
+and the oldest living athlete in the world, attributes much of his
+health to the use of olive oil. But he lays great stress upon the
+importance of obtaining it pure. Cotton-seed oil consists partly of an
+indigestible gum, and its continued ingestion tends to produce kidney
+trouble and heart failure.</p>
+
+<p>A simple test for purity is to use, the suspected sample for oiling
+floors or furniture. If pure, it will leave a beautiful polish minus
+grease. But if it contains cotton-seed oil, part of it will evaporate,
+leaving the gummy portion behind.</p>
+
+<p>When pure olive oil is shaken in a half-filled bottle, the bubbles
+formed thereby rapidly disappear, but if the sample is adulterated the
+bubbles continue some time before they burst.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Pure olive oil is pale and a greenish yellow.</p>
+
+<p>If equal volumes of strong nitric acid (this may be obtained from any
+chemist) and olive oil are mixed together and shaken in a flask the
+resulting product has a greenish or orange tinge which remains unchanged
+after standing for ten minutes. But if cotton-seed oil is present, the
+mixture is reddish in colour, and becomes brown or black on standing.</p>
+
+<p>Olive oil is slightly laxative, and therefore useful to sufferers from
+constipation. It is also an excellent vermifuge.</p>
+
+<p>Olive oil has been used with great success in the treatment of gall
+stones. A Dr. Rosenberg reported that of twenty-one cases treated by
+"the ingestion of a considerable quantity of olive oil, only two failed
+of complete recovery."</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Onion" id="Onion"></a><i>Onion.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The uses of the onion are many and varied. Fresh onion juice pro<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span>motes
+perspiration, relieves constipation and bronchitis, induces sleep, is
+good for cases of scurvy and sufferers from lead colic. It is also
+excellent for bee and wasp stings.</p>
+
+<p>Onions are noted for their nerve-soothing properties. They are also
+beautifiers of the complexion. But moderation must be observed in their
+use or they are apt to disagree. Not everyone can digest onions,
+although I believe them to be more easily digested raw than cooked.</p>
+
+<p>A raw onion may be rubbed on unbroken chilblains with good results. If
+broken, the onion should be roasted. The heart of a roasted onion placed
+in the ear is an old-fashioned remedy for earache.</p>
+
+<p>Raw onions are a powerful antiseptic. They also attract disease germs to
+themselves, and for this reason may be placed in a sickroom with
+advantage. Needless to say, they should afterwards be burnt or buried.
+Culpeper, the ancient herbalist, says that they "draw corruption<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> unto
+them." It is possibly for this reason that the Vedanta forbids them to
+devout Hindoos.</p>
+
+<p>Garlic possesses the same properties as the onion, but in a very much
+stronger degree. Leeks are very much milder than the onion.</p>
+
+<h3><i>Onion Juice.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The following prescription is excellent for sufferers from bronchitis or
+coughs: Slice a Spanish onion; lay the slices in a basin and sprinkle
+well with pure cane sugar. Cover the basin tightly and leave for twelve
+hours. After this time the basin should contain a quantity of juice.
+Give a teaspoonful every now and then until relief is afforded. If too
+much be taken it may induce headache and vomiting.</p>
+
+<h3><i>Onion Poultice.</i></h3>
+
+<p>An excellent poultice for the chest may be made by placing one or two
+English onions in a muslin bag and pounding them to a pulp. This<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> should
+be renewed every three or four hours, and the chest washed. I have been
+told that, at the age of six weeks old, I was saved from dying of
+bronchitis by such an onion poultice applied to the soles of my feet.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Orange" id="Orange"></a><i>Orange.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The orange possesses most of the virtues of the lemon, but in a modified
+form. But it has the advantage of being more palatable.</p>
+
+<p>The juice of oranges has been observed to exert such a beneficial
+influence on the blood as to prevent and cure influenza. Taken freely
+while the attack is on they seemingly prevent the pneumonia that so
+often follows. By far the quickest way to overcome influenza is to
+subsist solely on oranges for three or four days. Hot distilled water
+may be taken in addition.</p>
+
+<p>The peel of the bitter Seville orange is an excellent tonic and remedy
+in cases of malaria and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> ague. A drink may be prepared from it according
+to the prescription under the heading "Lemon."</p>
+
+<p>The "orange cure" is used with great success for consumptive patients,
+for chest affections of all kinds, for asthma, and some stomach
+complaints. Oranges are taken freely at every meal. The "navel" kind are
+generally used.</p>
+
+<p>Herbalists sell dried orange pips to be crushed to a powder and taken in
+the proportion of 1 teaspoonful to a cup of hot water. This is a
+harmless sedative, and useful in hysterical affections.</p>
+
+<h3><i>Marmalade Tonic.</i></h3>
+
+<p>A drink made with half a pint of hot water poured over a tablespoonful
+of good, home-made marmalade will often give relief in cases of
+neuralgia and pains in the head.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Parsley" id="Parsley"></a><i>Parsley.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Parsley is useful in cases of menstrual obstruction and diseases<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> of the
+kidneys. The bruised leaves applied to the breasts of nursing mothers
+are said to cure painful lumps and threatened abscess. It may also be
+taken with advantage by cancerous patients. In all these cases parsley
+may be taken in the form of a soup, in common use among members of the
+Physical Regeneration Society, which consists of onions, tomatoes,
+celery, and parsley, stewed together in distilled water.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Fernie remarks that when uncooked parsley has been eaten to excess
+it has been observed to produce epilepsy in certain bodily systems. The
+oil of parsley has also been found useful in cases of epilepsy. This
+would naturally follow on the homeopathic principle of similars.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Pear" id="Pear"></a><i>Pear.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The pear possesses most of the virtues of the apple. But, unlike the
+latter, it is credited with pro<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span>ducing a constipating effect if eaten
+without its skin. In an old recipe book I found the following tribute to
+Bergamot pears. The writer says: "I had for some years been afflicted
+with the usual symptoms of the stone in the bladder, when meeting with
+Dr. Lobb's "Treatise of Dissolvents for the Stone and Gravel," I was
+induced on his recommendation to try Bergamot pears, a dozen or more
+every day with the rind, when in less than a week I observed a large red
+flake in my urine, which, on a slight touch, crumbled into the finest
+powder, and this was the same for several succeeding days. It is ten
+years since I made the experiment, and I have been quite free from any
+complaints of that nature ever since. The pears were of the small sort
+and full of knots."</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Pea_Nut" id="Pea_Nut"></a><i>Pea Nut.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The pea nut&mdash;or monkey nut&mdash;is especially recommended as a cure<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> for
+indigestion. I have not been able to find out why. As a matter of fact
+it is such a highly-concentrated food that, unless taken in very small
+quantities, it is liable to upset weak digestions. I suspect the secret
+to lie in the chewing. Almost any kind of nut will cure the habitual
+indigestion induced by "bolting" the food, if only it be chewed until it
+is liquid. Hard biscuits will do instead of nuts, although an uncooked
+food like the nut is the better. But whatever is taken must be
+"Fletcherised," that is, chewed and chewed and chewed until it is all
+reduced to liquid.</p>
+
+<p>Pea nuts contain a good deal of oil, and for this reason are recommended
+for consumptives. They are the cheapest nuts to buy, for the reason that
+they are not really nuts but beans.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Pine-apple" id="Pine-apple"></a><i>Pine-apple.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Pine-apple juice is the specific for diphtheria. This seems to have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span>
+been first brought to the notice of Europeans by the fact that negroes
+living round about the swamps of Louisiana were observed to use it with
+great success. A writer who records this says: "The patient should be
+forced to swallow the juice. This fluid is of so pungent and corrosive a
+nature that it cuts out the diphtheria mucous and causes it to
+disappear."</p>
+
+<p>The above direction looks satisfactory enough on paper, and it is
+eminently cheering to read of how the pine-apple juice causes the
+diphtheria mucous to disappear, but anyone who knows anything about
+diphtheria knows that to "force" a diphtheria patient to swallow is more
+easily written about than accomplished. Fortunately I have been able to
+obtain the following explicit directions from an experienced nurse and
+mother:</p>
+
+<p>The pine-apple should be cut up and well pounded in a mortar. The juice
+must then be pressed out and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> strained through well-scalded muslin. The
+patient's mouth must be washed out with warm water. The juice may now be
+given with a silver teaspoon. It is possible that the patient may be
+quite unable to swallow any of it. If this be so, the juice will serve
+as a mouth and throat wash. It will gradually dissolve the membrane, and
+enable it to be scraped gently away with the spoon. The juice should be
+given, and the throat scraped as far down as the nurse can reach, as
+often as the patient can bear it. The time will come, sooner or later,
+when the juice is swallowed. No other food should be given. The nurse
+may have to work away for some hours before any juice is swallowed, but
+my friend assures me that if the scraping be done gently and skilfully,
+even children will bear it patiently. Only a silver or bone spoon should
+be used, and, needless to say, it must be well scalded in boiling water
+in the intervals of using.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>It is a remarkable fact that while pine-apple juice exercises this
+remarkable corrosive power upon diseased mucous, its effect upon the
+most delicate, healthy membrane is absolutely harmless. I have seen
+sweet pine-apple juice given to six-months-old babies as a supplement to
+the mother's milk, with excellent results.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Hillier, writing in the <i>Herald of Health</i> in 1897, says "Sliced
+pine-apples, laid in pure honey for a day or two, when used in
+moderation, will relieve the human being from chronic impaction of the
+bowels, reestablish peristaltic motion, and induce perfect digestion."</p>
+
+<p>"A slice of fresh pine-apple," writes Dr. Fernie, "is about as wise a
+thing as one can take by way of dessert after a substantial meal." This
+is because fresh pine-apple juice has been found to act upon animal food
+in very much the same way that the gastric juice acts within the
+stomach. But vegetarians should eat fresh fruit<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> at the beginning of
+meals rather than at the end.</p>
+
+<p>The pine-apple is useful in all ordinary cases of sore-throat.</p>
+
+<p>One pine-apple of average size should yield half a pint of juice.</p>
+
+<p>Tinned or cooked pine-apple is useless for curative purposes.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Pine_Kernel" id="Pine_Kernel"></a><i>Pine Kernel.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Pine kernels are recommended to those who find other nuts difficult to
+digest. They are the most easily digested of all the nuts. They are
+often used for cooking in the place of suet, being very oily.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Plum_Prune" id="Plum_Prune"></a><i>Plum, Prune.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The disfavour with which "stone fruits," especially plums, are generally
+regarded owes its being to the fact that they are too often eaten when
+unripe. When ripe, they are as wholesome as any other fruit. Unripe they
+provoke choleraic diarrh&oelig;a.</p>
+
+<p>The prune, a variety of dried plum, has been recommended as a remedy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span>
+against viciousness and irritability. An American doctor declares that
+there is a certain medicinal property in the prune which acts directly
+upon the nervous system, and that is where the evil passions have their
+seat. He reports that he tried the experiment of including prunes in the
+meals of the vicious, intractable youths of a reformatory, and that by
+the end of a week they were peaceable as lambs. Most writers who comment
+on this seem to suggest that any fruit which is mildly aperient would
+produce the same effect. But the mother of a large family tells me that
+she has observed that prunes seem to possess a soothing property that is
+all their own.</p>
+
+<h3><i>Prune Tea.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Prune tea is an excellent drink for irritable persons. It is made as
+follows: To every pint of washed prunes allow 1 quart of distilled
+water. Soak the prunes all night, and afterwards simmer to rags in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span>
+same water. Strain, and flavour with lemon juice if desired.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Potato" id="Potato"></a><i>Potato.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The potato is a cheap and homely remedy against gout, scurvy, and
+rickets. Dr. Lambe tells how he cured a case of scurvy solely with raw
+potatoes. One of the favourite dishes of that good old doctor was a
+salad composed of sliced raw potatoes and olive oil.</p>
+
+<p>In order to preserve the medicinal properties of potatoes when cooked,
+they must always be steamed in their jackets. The skin may be removed
+before eating, but care should be taken not to allow a particle of the
+potato to adhere to it. The valuable potash salts chiefly lie just under
+the skin.</p>
+
+<p>A raw potato scraped or powdered to a pulp is an excellent remedy for
+burns and scalds.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Fernie recommends the following decoction with which to bathe the
+swollen and inflamed joints of rheu<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span>matic sufferers. Take 1 lb.
+potatoes, cut each into four, but do not peel them. Boil in 2 pints of
+water until stewed down to 1 pint. Strain, and use the liquid.</p>
+
+<p>Eaten to excess potatoes are apt to cause dullness and laziness.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Radish" id="Radish"></a><i>Radish.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The radish is commonly cited as indigestible, but for all that it is
+commended by old writers as a potent remedy for stone. If not too old,
+well masticated, and eaten at the beginning of a meal, I do not think it
+is more indigestible than the majority of vegetables.</p>
+
+<p>A syrup made with the juice expressed from pounded radishes and cane
+sugar is recommended for rheumatism, bronchial troubles, whooping-cough,
+and pustular eruptions.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Fernie notes that the black radish is especially useful against
+whooping-cough, probably by reason of its volatile, sulphureted oil.
+"It<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> is employed in Germany for this purpose by cutting off the top, and
+then making a hole within the root, which hole is filled with treacle,
+or honey, and allowed to stand thus for two or three days; afterwards a
+teaspoonful of the medicated liquid is to be given two or three times in
+the day, with a dessertspoonful of water, when required."</p>
+
+<p>I am not acquainted with the "black radish," but mothers might do worse,
+in cases of whooping-cough, than give their children the juice of
+pounded radishes mixed with pure honey.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Raspberry" id="Raspberry"></a><i>Raspberry.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Raspberries are excellent against the scurvy, and, like the blackberry,
+good for relaxed bowels. They are a very wholesome fruit, and should be
+given to those who have "weak and queasy stomachs."</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Rice" id="Rice"></a><i>Rice.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The chief medicinal value of rice lies in the quickness with which it
+is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> digested. One authority says that "it can be taken four times a day
+and the patient still get twenty hours' rest." It is consequently of
+great value in digestive and intestinal troubles. But it should be
+<i>unpolished</i>, otherwise it is an ill-balanced, deficient food. It should
+likewise be boiled in only just enough soft water to be absorbed during
+the cooking. One cup of rice should be put on in a double saucepan with
+three cups of cold water and tightly covered. When the water is all
+absorbed the rice will be cooked.</p>
+
+<p>The large-grained, unpolished rice sold at "Food-Reform" stores at 3d.
+per lb. absorbs the water and cooks much more easily than a smaller
+variety sold at 2d. I have found the latter most unsatisfactory.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Rhubarb" id="Rhubarb"></a><i>Rhubarb.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Rhubarb is a wholesome and cooling spring vegetable, and may well take
+the place of cooked fruit when the latter is scarce. But it is
+generally<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> forbidden to rheumatic and gouty patients on account of its
+oxalic acid. This oxalic acid is supposed to combine with the lime in
+the blood of the gouty person, and to form crystals of oxalate of lime,
+which are eliminated by the kidneys. At the same time the general health
+suffers. "Dr. Prout," writes Dr. Fernie, "says he has seen well-marked
+instances in which an oxalate of lime kidney attack has followed the use
+of garden rhubarb in a tart or pudding, likewise of sorrel in a salad,
+particularly when at the same time the patient has been drinking hard
+water. But chemists explain that oxalates may be excreted in the urine
+without having necessarily been a constituent, as such, of vegetable or
+other foods taken at table, seeing that citric, malic, and other organic
+acids which are found distributed throughout the vegetable world are
+liable to chemical conversion into oxalic acid through a fermentation or
+perverted digestion."</p>
+
+<p>I think the moral of the above<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> is: "Do not drink hard water."
+Especially do not cook fruit and vegetables in hard water. They are
+nearly always rendered indigestible by such a process, and
+"vegetarianism," not the hard water, is often blamed for the sufferings
+of the consumers.</p>
+
+<p>Rhubarb is apt to be over-valued as a "spring medicine" on account of
+its association with the Turkey rhubarb of <i>materia medica</i>. It should
+be thoroughly ripe before eating.</p>
+
+<p>I am <i>not</i> recommending Turkey rhubarb.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Sage" id="Sage"></a><i>Sage.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Sage is said to promote longevity, to quicken the senses and memory, and
+to strengthen the nerves.</p>
+
+<p>Sage tea is recommended for pulmonary consumption and for excessive
+perspiration of the feet. A teaspoonful of dried sage, or rather more if
+the fresh leaves be used, is steeped in half a pint of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> water for
+twenty-four hours. A teacupful is to be taken night and morning.</p>
+
+<p>Sage, like so many of the fragrant herbs, is antiseptic.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Strawberry" id="Strawberry"></a><i>Strawberry.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The strawberry is exceptionally wholesome on account of its being so
+easily digested. It is recommended for gout, rheumatism, and the stone.
+Also for an&aelig;mic patients on account of the iron it contains.</p>
+
+<p>H. Benjafield, M.B., advises an&aelig;mic girls to take 1 quart of
+strawberries per day, and when these are not obtainable several ripe
+bananas.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Spinach" id="Spinach"></a><i>Spinach.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Professor Bunge declared that iron should never be taken in its mineral
+form, but that those who are in need of an iron tonic should take it as
+it exists in vegetables and fruit. To this end he especially commends
+spinach.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Luff puts spinach first on a list<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span> of vegetables recommended to
+those who suffer from gouty tendencies.</p>
+
+<p>Spinach is very easily digested, and so juicy that no added water is
+needed in which to cook it.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Tomato" id="Tomato"></a><i>Tomato.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The tomato, according to an American physician, is one of the most
+powerful <i>deobstruents</i> (remover of disease particles, and opener of the
+natural channels of the body) of the <i>materia medica</i>. It should be used
+in all affections of the liver, etc., where calomel is indicated.</p>
+
+<p>The superstition that tomatoes are a cause of cancer is absolutely
+without foundation. Vegetarian cancer patients who have recovered after
+being given up as "hopeless" by the orthodox faculty eat tomatoes
+freely. Another belief, strongly supported by some otherwise "advanced"
+scientific men, is that tomatoes are bad for those who suffer from a
+tendency to gout, or uric acid disease. But this has been contra<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span>dicted
+by others. The evil agency in the tomato is supposed to be the oxalic
+salt which it undoubtedly contains. But it has been shown by experiment
+how certain chemical compounds as obtained from plants act quite
+differently to the same compounds artificially prepared in the
+laboratory. So that the contention of those who assert that the tomato
+is not only harmless, but even beneficial to gouty subjects, is not
+unreasonable. Speaking from experience, I can only say that one of the
+goutiest subjects I know eats tomatoes nearly every day of his life, and
+continues to progress rapidly towards health.</p>
+
+<p>A tomato poultice is said to cleanse foul ulcers, and promote their
+healing. It should be renewed frequently, and applied hot.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Turnip" id="Turnip"></a><i>Turnip.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Turnips are anti-scorbutic.</p>
+
+<p>An old remedy for chronic<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> coughs was turnip juice boiled with sugar.
+The turnips were grated, the juice pressed out, and 2&frac12; ozs. candied
+sugar were allowed to 1 pint of juice. This was boiled until it slightly
+thickened. A teaspoonful to be taken several times a day.</p>
+
+<p>The green turnip tops, steamed until tender, are a good "spring
+medicine."</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Thyme" id="Thyme"></a><i>Thyme.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The common garden thyme, used for flavouring, is credited with many
+virtues. It is said to inspire courage and enliven the spirits, and for
+this reason should be taken by melancholy persons. It is good against
+nervous headache, flatulence, and hysterical affections. It is
+antiseptic.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Walnuts" id="Walnuts"></a><i>Walnuts.</i></h3>
+
+<p>The walnut has been called vegetable arsenic because of its curative
+value in eczema. An oil obtained from the kernel has been found of great
+service when applied<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span> externally in cases of skin diseases. The leaves
+of the walnut tree are also used for the same purpose, both externally
+and internally. One ounce of the leaves to 12 tablespoonfuls of boiling
+water make a tea, half a tea-cup of which may be taken several times a
+day. The affected parts should also be washed with it.</p>
+
+<p>Walnuts, to be well masticated, have been given to gouty and rheumatic
+patients with great success. About one dozen per day is the quantity
+prescribed. It is possible that herein lies the secret of the fact that
+our ancestors invariably took walnuts with their wine.</p>
+
+<p>The green, unripe walnut is useful for expelling worms.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Wheat" id="Wheat"></a><i>Wheat.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Whole wheat is a perfect food. In the form of white flour, however, it
+is an imperfect, unbalanced food, on account of its deprivation of the
+valuable phosphates which exist in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> the bran. Rickets and malnutrition
+generally are the outcome of the habitual use of white flour, unless the
+loss of mineral matter is counter balanced by other foods.</p>
+
+<p>Only the very finest wholemeal, such as "Artox," for example, should be
+used for making bread, etc. The ordinary coarse wholemeals are apt to
+produce intestinal irritation.</p>
+
+<p><i>Cracked wheat</i>, soaked overnight in water and boiled for a couple of
+hours, is a favourite prescription of American writers for habitual
+constipation. It may be obtained at most large "Food-Reform" stores.</p>
+
+<h3><i>Bran Tea.</i></h3>
+
+<p>Nervous or an&aelig;mic persons will derive great benefit from a course of
+bran tea. It is made as follows:&mdash;To every cup of bran allow 2 cups
+distilled water. Well wash the bran in cold water; it is generally full
+of dust. Put in a saucepan with the cold distilled water, cover tightly,
+and boil for thirty minutes. Strain,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span> and flavour with sugar and lemon
+juice to taste. Take a teacupful night and morning.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Part_III_Indices" id="Part_III_Indices"></a><span class="smcap">Part III.&mdash;Indices</span></h2>
+
+<h3><a name="INDEX_TO_DISEASES_AND_REMEDIES" id="INDEX_TO_DISEASES_AND_REMEDIES"></a>INDEX TO DISEASES AND REMEDIES</h3>
+
+<div class="index">
+<ul>
+<li><span class="smcap">Abscess</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Parsley">Parsley</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Acid Dyspepsia</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">An&aelig;mia</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Banana">Banana</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Barley">Barley</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Wheat">Bran</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Beans_Peas_and_Lentils">Lentil</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Spinach">Spinach</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Strawberry">Strawberry</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cresses">Water-cress</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Asthma</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Orange">Orange</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Blackheads</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Boils</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Fig">Green Figs</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Bowel Impaction</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Pine-apple">Pine-apple</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Brain Fag</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Bronchitis</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Onion">Onion</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Radish">Radish</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Bruises</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Banana">Banana</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Burns</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Beet">Beet</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Potato">Potato</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Cancer</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cinnamon">Cinnamon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Parsley">Parsley</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Chest Affections</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Almond">Almond</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Orange">Orange</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Chilblains</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Onion">Onion</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Cholera</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Coffee">Coffee</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Colds</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Black_Currant">Black Currant</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Elderberry">Elderberry</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Colic</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Caraway_Seed">Caraway Seed</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Onion">Onion</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Constipation</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Brazil_Nut">Brazil Nut</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Wheat">Cracked Wheat</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Olive">Olive Oil</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Onion">Onion</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Consumption</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cabbage">Cabbage, etc.</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Carrot">Carrot</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cinnamon">Cinnamon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cresses">Cresses</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Date">Date</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Grape">Grape</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Orange">Orange</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Pea_Nut">Pea Nut</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Corns</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Coughs</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Black_Currant">Black Currant</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Elderberry">Elderberry</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Turnip">Turnip</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Diarrh&oelig;a</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Blackberry">Blackberry</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Raspberry">Raspberry</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Diphtheria</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Pine-apple">Pine-apple</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Dyspepsia</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Celery">Celery</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Pea_Nut">Pea Nut</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Eczema</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lavender">Lavender</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Walnuts">Walnut</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Epilepsy</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Parsley">Parsley</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Eye, Inflammation of</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Fever</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Barley">Barley</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Elderberry">Elderberry</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Grape">Grape</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Flatulence</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Thyme">Thyme</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Freckles</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Gall Stone</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Olive">Olive Oil</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Gastritis</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Banana">Banana</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Barley">Barley</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Gout</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Carrot">Carrot</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Celery">Celery</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Grape">Grape</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Potato">Potato</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Spinach">Spinach</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Strawberry">Strawberry</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Walnuts">Walnut</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">H&aelig;morrhage</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Nettle">Nettle</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Headache</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lavender">Lavender</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Orange">Orange</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Thyme">Thyme</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Heart, Palpitation of</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Asparagus">Asparagus</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Hysteria</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Caraway_Seed">Caraway Seed</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Orange">Orange Pips</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Thyme">Thyme</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Indigestion</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Celery">Celery</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Pea_Nut">Pea Nut</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Inebriety</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Inflammation</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Banana">Banana</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Barley">Barley</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Gooseberry">Green Gooseberry</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Influenza</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cinnamon">Cinnamon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Orange">Orange</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Irritability</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Plum_Prune">Prune</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Kidney Disease</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Parsley">Parsley</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Liver Complaints</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Carrot">Carrot</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Grape">Grape</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Gooseberry">Red Gooseberry</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Tomato">Tomato</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Beet">White Beet</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Malaria</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Grape">Grape</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Orange">Orange</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Melancholy</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Thyme">Thyme</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Menstrual Obstruction</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Parsley">Parsley</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Nervous Dyspepsia</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Celery">Celery</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Nervous Excitement</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Onion">Onion</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Sage">Sage</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Nervous Exhaustion</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Neuralgia</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Orange">Seville Orange</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Palpitation of Heart</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Asparagus">Asparagus</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Paralysis</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lavender">Lavender</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Peritonitis</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Banana">Banana</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Piles</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Elderberry">Elderberry</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Pneumonia</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cinnamon">Cinnamon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Orange">Orange</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Pulmonary Complaints</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cabbage">Cabbage, etc.</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Carrot">Carrot</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Grape">Grape</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Sage">Sage</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Rheumatism</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Asparagus">Asparagus</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cabbage">Cabbage, etc.</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Celery">Celery</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cresses">Cress</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Radish">Radish</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Strawberry">Strawberry</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Walnuts">>Walnut</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Rickets</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Potato">Potato</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Scurvy</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cresses">Cress</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lemon">Lemon</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Potato">Potato</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Raspberry">Raspberry</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Turnip">Turnip</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Skin Eruptions</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Nettle">Nettle</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Radish">Radish</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Sleeplessness</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lettuce">Lettuce</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Onion">Onion</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Smallpox</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Grape">Grapes</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Sores</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Beet">Beet</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Sore Throat</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Black_Currant">Black Currant</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Pine-apple">Pine-apple</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Sprains</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Banana">Banana</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Caraway_Seed">Caraway Seed</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Stings</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Onion">Onion</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Stone</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Apple">Apple</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Pear">Pear</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Radish">Radish</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Strawberry">Strawberry</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Typhoid Fever</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Banana">Banana</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Uterine Disease</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Beet">Red Beet</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Ulcers</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Carrot">Carrot</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Tomato">Tomato</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Viciousness</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Plum_Prune">Prune</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Weak Digestion</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Chestnut">Chestnut</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Grape">Grape</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Lettuce">Lettuce</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Pine_Kernel">Pine Kernal</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Rice">Rice</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Strawberry">Strawberry</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Whooping Cough</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Radish">Radish</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Worms</span>&mdash;
+<ul>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Carrot">Carrot</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Cocoanut">Cocoanut</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Olive">Olive Oil</a></li>
+	<li class="subitem"><a href="#Walnuts">Walnut</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="INDEX_TO_PRESCRIPTIONS_AND_RECIPES" id="INDEX_TO_PRESCRIPTIONS_AND_RECIPES"></a>INDEX TO PRESCRIPTIONS AND RECIPES</h2>
+
+<div class="index">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#Page_15">Almond Soup</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_19">Apple Tea</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_21">Banana and Barley Injection</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_23">Barley Water</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_25">Blackberry Tea</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_25">Blackberry Jelly</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_26">Black Currant Tea</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_77">Bran Tea</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_33">Cinnamon Tea</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_32">Chestnuts, Boiled</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_37">Elderberry Leaf Poultice</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_39">Figs, Steamed</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_36">Fruit Juice, Preserved</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_45">Lemon Prescription for Malaria</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_57">Marmalade Tonic</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_50">Nut Cream</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_55">Onion Juice</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_55">Onion Poultice</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_57">Orange Pips, Dried</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_60">Pine-apple Juice</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_67">Potato Lotion</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_65">Prune Tea</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_68">Radish Juice</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_42">Raisin Tea</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_69">Rice, Boiled</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_71">Sage Tea</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_75">Turnip Juice</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_76">Walnut Leaf Tea</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="INDEX_MISCELLANEOUS" id="INDEX_MISCELLANEOUS"></a>INDEX&mdash;MISCELLANEOUS</h2>
+
+<div class="index">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#Page_20">Artistic Faculties, to Strengthen</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_28">Cabbage, for Nursing Mothers</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_29">Caraway Seeds, promote Secretion of Milk</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_31">Cresses, good for Brain</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_44">Lavender, prevents Flies, Fleas, and Moths</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_47">Nuts, true Substitute for Flesh Meat</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_49">Nut Butter Machine</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_52">Olive Oil, Tests for Purity of</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_27">Pulse, not Indigestible</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Page_73">Tomato, not bad for Cancer or Gout</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+<h2><a name="ADVERTISEMENTS" id="ADVERTISEMENTS"></a>ADVERTISEMENTS</h2>
+
+<hr class='smler' />
+
+<h2>A WORD ABOUT THE ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2>
+
+<hr class='smler' />
+
+<p>Readers of the Healthy Life Booklets will doubtless be glad to know that
+only those advertisements of foods that can be conscientiously
+recommended are accepted. This necessarily limits the number of
+advertisements, but has the advantage of making them really serviceable.</p>
+
+<p>The publisher has no pecuniary interest in any of the firms mentioned,
+and therefore feels quite free to give his testimony to the worth of
+their goods.</p>
+
+<h3>"Artox" Flour.</h3>
+
+<p>This is so finely ground that, although wholemeal, it may be used in the
+manufacture even of sponge cake, while for bread it is unsurpassable.</p>
+
+<h3>Digestive Tea.</h3>
+
+<p>Tea-drinking is considered to be very injurious, but the habit is
+difficult, apparently impossible, for some people to overcome, and
+therefore the Universal Digestive Tea supplies a real need. A tea minus
+tannin is a boon to everyone, but especially to the sufferers from
+dyspepsia and nervous complaints.</p>
+
+<h3>Fry's Cocoa.</h3>
+
+<p>This cocoa has stood the test of time and chemists for so long now as
+hardly to need further testimony as to its genuineness.</p>
+
+<h3>International Health Association.</h3>
+
+<p>They supply thoroughly pure foods, and readers will do well to take
+advantage of their offer to send samples to test for themselves.</p>
+
+<h3>Mapleton's Nut Foods.</h3>
+
+<p>Their Nutter is quite the best vegetable cooking fat on the market, and
+makes excellent pastry. A pie-crust made of Nutter and "Artox" Flour is
+a revelation to the uninitiated. The Nut Butters are also very good,
+especially the uncoloured varieties labelled "Wallaceite."</p>
+
+<h3>Shearns.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Shearn is the acknowledged "Fruit King" of the Food Reform movement.
+The grand fruit shop in Tottenham Court Road, to which is now added a
+vegetarian restaurant, is familiar to most Food Reformers who live in or
+near London. Others will be glad to know of Shearn's Stores where all
+the latest "Food Reform" specialities are stocked. A catalogue can be
+obtained on application.</p>
+
+<h3>Wallace Bakery.</h3>
+
+<p>This is the only bakery in existence which supplies bread, cakes, etc.,
+made with very fine wholemeal flour, and entirely free from yeast and
+chemicals. The Wallace Bakery is a boon and a blessing to Physical
+Regenerationists.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h2>A HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLET FREE</h2>
+
+<p>It has many valuable recipes for Food Reformers and Invalids, and tells
+all about</p>
+
+<h2>"ARTOX" WHOLE MEAL,</h2>
+
+<p>which is made from the finest whole wheat, and is so finely ground by
+old-fashioned stone mills that it can be digested by the most delicate.
+It makes the most delicious Bread, Cakes, Biscuits, and Pastry, and is
+an entire safeguard against Constipation when used regularly in place of
+white flour. It is strongly recommended by <i>The Lancet</i> and by Mrs.
+Leigh Hunt Wallace (<i>Herald of Health</i>) and is used exclusively in the
+Wallace Bakery. Sold by Health Stores and Grocers everywhere in 7 lb.
+sealed linen bags, or 28 lbs. sent direct for 4s. 6d. carriage paid.
+<i>Important.</i>&mdash;"Artox" Wholemeal is only retailed in our sealed bags, and
+is <i>not</i> sold loose.</p>
+
+<h3>APPLEYARDS, LTD. (Dept. M.)</h3>
+
+<h4>Millers, ROTHERHAM.</h4>
+
+<h4><i>Mention Healthy Life Booklets.</i></h4>
+
+<p>[Illustration: Grains of Common Sense for Housewife and Epicure.]</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h2>WILL YOU TRY A CUP OF TEA</h2>
+
+<p class='center'>that, instead of injuring your nerves and toughening your food, is</p>
+
+<h3>Absolutely Safe and Delightful?</h3>
+
+<h3>2s. 2d.; 2s. 10d.; and 3s. 6d. per lb.</h3>
+
+<p><b>THE UNIVERSAL DIGESTIVE TEA</b> is ordinary Tea treated with oxygen, which
+neutralises the injurious tannin. Every pound of ordinary tea contains
+about two ounces of tannin. Tannin is a powerful astringent subject to
+tan skins into leather. The tannin in ordinary tea tans, or hardens, the
+lining of the digestive organs, also the food eaten. This prevents the
+healthful nourishment of the body, and undoubtedly eventuates in nervous
+disorders.</p>
+
+<blockquote><p>On receipt of a post card the UNIVERSAL DIGESTIVE TEA CO., Ltd.,
+Colonial Warehouse, Kendal, will send a sample of this Tea</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>and name of nearest Agent, also a Descriptive Pamphlet compiled by
+Albert Broadbent, Author of "Science in the Daily Meal," &amp;c. Where no
+agent, 1-lb. and upwards will be sent post free.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>AGENTS WANTED.</i></p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>Ideal Foods for Every Day.</h3>
+
+<p>The I.H.A. Health Foods are called Health Foods because they do actually
+build up the body, and make directly for better health all round.</p>
+
+<p>They are Ideal Foods because they are made only from such products as
+wheat, nuts, etc.; because they are thoroughly cooked and easily
+digested; because they are absolutely pure; because they are
+manufactured with scrupulous care and cleanliness in an ideal factory in
+the open country.</p>
+
+<p>They are ideal foods for every day because they furnish a wide variety
+of dishes at a low cost, and because they are all pleasant to the taste.</p>
+
+<p>The I.H.A. Health Foods are sold by all Health Food Stores, or direct on
+easy terms.</p>
+
+<p>We offer to send you three liberal samples and a beautifully illustrated
+price list, containing full details and many valuable recipes, for 2d.
+stamps, or price list post free on application.</p>
+
+<h2>The International Health Association</h2>
+
+<h4>Limited.</h4>
+
+<h4>The Factory in the Beech Woods,</h4>
+
+<h3>Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts.</h3>
+
+<h4><i>Please write for "Food Remedies."</i></h4>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h2>A Word about Nut Foods.</h2>
+
+<p>The high value of Nuts has long been known, but until lately no attempt
+has been made to manufacture them in a form available for domestic use.
+This, however, is now changed, as a splendid variety of excellent
+preparations are ready to hand, owing to the enterprise of <b>Messrs.
+Mapleton</b>, in the shape of such useful products as <b>Nutter</b> and <b>Nutter
+Suet</b>, which supersedes Lard, Suet, and Cooking Butter in the kitchen.
+Also delicious Table Butters&mdash;<b>Walnut</b>, <b>Cocoanut</b>, and <b>Cashew</b>&mdash;all of which
+are four times as nutritious as Dairy Butter. Other goods are <b>Nut Meat,
+Nut Gravy, Nut Biscuits, Nut Cakes, Fruitarian Cakes,</b> &amp;c. A Post Card
+will bring a Booklet describing these goods, with Recipes for their use,
+on application to</p>
+
+<h4>THE MANUFACTURERS:</h4>
+
+<h3>Mapleton's Nut Food Co., Ltd.</h3>
+
+<h4>LANCASHIRE</h4>
+
+<h4><span class="smcap">Mention Healthy Life Booklets</span>.</h4>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>A GUIDE TO GOOD THINGS.</h3>
+
+<p>There are thousands of folk all over the country who are beginning to
+feel vaguely that their usual diet is not all it should be, and that it
+tends to produce discomfort and disease. Many of them would be glad to
+make a change if they knew how. Our booklet, "A Guide to Good Things,"
+will help them. It contains an interesting article on "How To Start,"
+and gives a complete menu for a week in which the foods that supply the
+place of the less wholesome fish, bacon, or meat, are clearly indicated.</p>
+
+<p>There are also several pages of delightful recipes that will help to
+gladden the table of any housewife in the kingdom, and in addition there
+is a complete price list of every health food upon the market that can
+be recommended, and of the most up-to-date and novel appliances for
+cooking and preparing food.</p>
+
+<p>There is an all but endless array of breakfast foods&mdash;bread, cakes,
+biscuits, etc., etc., that are not only beneficial because of what they
+contain, but are free from the injurious chemical adulterants so largely
+used nowadays.</p>
+
+<p>But send for our booklet and see for yourself what it contains, or if
+you are near give us a call. You may shop, lunch, dine, and take tea
+with us. Our Health Food Stores will supply everything you need for a
+perfect health diet. Our Fruit Stores will supply you with the choicest
+fruit on the most moderate terms, and in large quantities at wholesale
+prices. Our Fruit Luncheon Rooms are the talk of London, and you can get
+a delightful fruit meal amid flowers and palms from 6d.</p>
+
+<p>If you cannot call, send six penny stamps, and in return we will send
+you, together with the booklet, a sample of our Frunut, reg. (a
+preparation of selected nuts and fruit that is as delightful as it is
+sustaining); samples of Stamanut Wholemeal Biscuits (a valuable and most
+economical food), and of our Afternoon Tea Biscuits, and a good sample
+of our Special Pale Roasted Coffee. The whole post free for 6d.</p>
+
+<p>You will be delighted with it all.</p>
+
+<p>Write to-day to B. Shearn &amp; Son, 234, Tottenham Court Road, London, W.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>Mention this book.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h2>A Bakery based on Principle.</h2>
+
+<p>When so many manufactured foods are more or less adulterated&mdash;even such
+everyday articles as Bread and Biscuits being no exceptions&mdash;it is good
+news to know that Delicious Biscuits, Bread, Cakes, &amp;c., can be obtained
+which are guaranteed, and proved by frequent analysis to be, absolutely
+free from any impurity whatever. The goods referred to are made by</p>
+
+<h3>The WALLACE P.R. FOODS Co.,</h3>
+
+<p>which was founded on certain definite scientific principles, and those
+principles are unswervingly applied to every detail of its varied
+activities.</p>
+
+<p>Within its clean and airy precincts are manufactured the famous Barley
+Malt Biscuits (and some thirty other varieties), rich and wholesome
+Cakes, air-raised Bread, pure Preserves, a specially prepared Barley
+Malt Meal, Pale Roasted Coffee, and Stamina Food&mdash;this last being the
+best-balanced food for Infants and Invalids yet produced. In the making
+of these foods only the very choicest ingredients are employed; the only
+flour used is a very fine wholemeal; the butter and milk are sterilised
+and the water distilled, while all such impurities as Yeast, Baking
+Powder, and Chemicals are strictly avoided.</p>
+
+<p>The experience of thousands proves that the daily use of "<span class="smcap">Wallaceite</span>"
+(reg.) P.R. Foods is a veritable highway to health. They build up the
+body and keep it in working order as do no other foods.</p>
+
+<p>They can be obtained from all Health Food Stores.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>30 Samples of Delicious Bread, Cakes, and Biscuits, Carriage Paid, 1/6</p>
+
+<p class='center'>or Box of Larger Samples, 2/6.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>Interesting explanatory literature Free.</i></p>
+
+<h3>THE WALLACE P.R. FOODS CO.,</h3>
+
+<h4>465, Battersea Park Road, London, S.W.</h4>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h2>The Open Road</h2>
+
+<blockquote><p class='center'>An unconventional Magazine concerned with Religion, Psychology,
+Sociology, Diet, and Hygiene.</p></blockquote>
+
+<h3>EDITED BY<br /><span class="smcap">Florence</span> &amp; C. W. <span class="smcap">Daniel</span>.</h3>
+
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+
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+
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+
+<h4><span class="smcap">London</span>: C. W. DANIEL, 11 <span class="smcap">Cursitor Street</span>, E.C.</h4>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3><i>HOW WE ARE BORN.</i></h3>
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+
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+
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+
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+
+<p class='center'>(<i>In Preparation.</i>)</p>
+
+<p>NO. 2. THE BODY AND ITS CARE.</p>
+
+<p>NO. 3. THE MIND AND ITS EFFECT UPON THE BODY.</p>
+
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+
+<p>NO. 5. CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE.</p>
+
+<p>NO. 6. MAN AND HIS POWER.</p>
+
+<hr class='smler' />
+
+<h4>LONDON: C. W. DANIEL, 11 Cursitor St., E.C.</h4>
+
+<hr />
+
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+
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+<hr class='smler' />
+
+<h4><span class="smcap">London</span>: C. W. DANIEL, 11 <span class="smcap">Cursitor Street</span>, E.C.</h4>
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+Title: Food Remedies
+       Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses
+
+Author: Florence Daniel
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+FOOD REMEDIES
+
+
+HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLETS
+
+No. 2.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLETS
+
+NO. 1. THE LEAGUE AGAINST HEALTH.
+
+  By ARNOLD EILOART, B.Sc., Ph.D.
+
+
+NO. 2. FOOD REMEDIES.
+
+  By FLORENCE DANIEL.
+
+
+_Ready in September, 1908._
+
+NO. 3. INSTEAD OF DRUGS.
+
+  By ARNOLD EILOART, B.Sc., Ph.D.
+
+NO. 4. HEALTHY LIFE COOK BOOK.
+
+  By FLORENCE DANIEL.
+
+
+_Ready in December, 1908._
+
+NO. 5. MIND _VERSUS_ MEDICINE.
+
+  By ARNOLD EILOART, B.Sc., Ph.D.
+
+NO. 6. DISTILLED WATER.
+
+  By FLORENCE DANIEL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+            FOOD REMEDIES
+
+FACTS ABOUT FOODS AND THEIR MEDICINAL USES
+
+                  BY
+           FLORENCE DANIEL
+
+
+
+               LONDON
+            C. W. DANIEL
+      11 CURSITOR STREET, E.C.
+                1908
+
+
+
+
+_PREFACE_
+
+
+There is a sentence in the Talmud to the effect that the Kingdom of God
+is nigh when the teacher gives the name of the author of the information
+that he is passing on. With every desire to fulfil the rabbinical
+precept and acknowledge the sources of this booklet, I find myself in a
+quandary. If I make my acknowledgments duly I must begin with my
+grandmother and Culpeper's Herbal. Following upon those come the results
+of my own and friends' practical experience. After this I should,
+perhaps, give a list of the periodicals from whose pages I have culled
+much helpful information. But as space and memory preclude individual
+mention I must content myself with this general acknowledgment. Lastly,
+I desire to record my thanks to Dr. Fernie, whose _Meals Medicinal_, a
+large and exhaustive collection of facts about food, has afforded not
+the least valuable assistance.
+                                                    F. D.
+
+
+
+
+_CONTENTS_
+
+
+PART 1.--INTRODUCTORY
+                                         PAGE
+While there is Fruit there is Hope          1
+Fruit and the Teeth                         5
+Fruit is Food                               6
+Objections to Fruit                         8
+A Pioneer of Food Remedies                 10
+The Simple Life                            12
+Fruit or Fasting                           13
+Acute Illness                              14
+
+
+PART II.--FOODS AND THEIR
+MEDICINAL USES
+
+Almond                                     15
+Apple                                      16
+Asparagus                                  20
+Banana                                     20
+Barley                                     23
+Blackberry                                 24
+Black Currant                              26
+Brazil Nuts                                26
+Beans, Peas, and Lentils                   27
+Beet                                       28
+Cabbage                                    28
+Caraway Seed                               29
+Carrot                                     30
+Celery                                     31
+Cresses                                    31
+Chestnut                                   32
+Cinnamon                                   32
+Cocoanut                                   33
+Coffee                                     33
+Date                                       34
+Elderberry                                 34
+Fig                                        38
+Grape                                      39
+Gooseberry                                 43
+Lavender                                   43
+Lemon                                      44
+Lettuce                                    46
+Nettle                                     47
+Nuts                                       47
+Oat                                        51
+Olive                                      52
+Onion                                      53
+Orange                                     56
+Parsley                                    57
+Pear                                       58
+Pea Nut                                    59
+Pine-Apple                                 60
+Pine Kernel                                64
+Plum, Prune                                64
+Potatoe                                    66
+Radish                                     67
+Raspberry                                  68
+Rice                                       68
+Rhubarb                                    69
+Sage                                       71
+Strawberry                                 72
+Spinach                                    72
+Tomato                                     73
+Turnip                                     74
+Thyme                                      75
+Walnut                                     75
+Wheat                                      76
+
+
+PART III.--INDICES
+
+Index to Diseases and Remedies             79
+Index to Prescriptions and Recipes         86
+Index--Miscellaneous                       87
+
+
+
+
+FOOD REMEDIES
+
+
+
+
+PART I.--INTRODUCTORY
+
+_While there is Fruit there is hope._
+
+
+While there is life--and fruit--there is hope. When this truth is
+realised by the laity nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand
+professors of the healing art will be obliged to abandon their
+profession and take to fruit-growing for a living.
+
+Many people have heard vaguely of the "grape cure" for diseases arising
+from over-feeding, and the lemon cure for rheumatism, but for the most
+part these "cures" remain mere names. Nevertheless it is almost
+incredible to the uninitiated what may be accomplished by the
+abandonment for a time of every kind of food in favour of fruit. Of
+course, such a proceeding should not be entered upon in a careless or
+random fashion. Too sudden changes of habit are apt to be attended with
+disturbances that discourage the patient, and cause him to lose patience
+and abandon the treatment without giving it a fair trial. In countries
+where the "grape cure" is practised the patient starts by taking one
+pound of grapes each day, which quantity is gradually increased until he
+can consume six pounds. As the quantity of grapes is increased that of
+the ordinary food is decreased, until at last the patient lives on
+nothing but grapes.[1] I have not visited a "grape cure" centre in
+person, but I have read that it is not only persons suffering from the
+effects of over-feeding who find salvation in the "grape cure," but that
+consumptive patients thrive and even put on weight under it.
+
+The _Herald of Health_ stated, some few years back, that in the South of
+France where the "grape cure" is practised consumptive patients are fed
+on grapes alone, and become quite strong and well in a year or two. And
+I have myself known wonderful cures to follow on the adoption of a
+fruitarian dietary in cases of cancer, tumour, gout, eczema, all kinds
+of inflammatory complaints, and wounds that refused to heal.
+
+H. Benjafield, M.B., writing in the _Herald of Health_, says: "Garrod,
+the great London authority on gout, advises his patients to take
+oranges, lemons, strawberries, grapes, apples, pears, etc. Tardieu, the
+great French authority, maintains that the salts of potash found so
+plentifully in fruits are the chief agents in purifying the blood from
+these rheumatic and gouty poisons.... Dr. Buzzard advises the scorbutic
+to take fruit morning, noon, and night. Fresh lemon juice in the form of
+lemonade is to be his ordinary drink; the existence of diarrhoea should
+be no reason for withholding it." The writer goes on to show that
+headache, indigestion, constipation, and all other complaints that
+result from the sluggish action of bowels and liver can never be cured
+by the use of artificial fruit salts and drugs.
+
+Salts and acids as found in organised forms are quite different in their
+effects to the products of the laboratory, notwithstanding that the
+chemical composition may be shown to be the same. The chemist may be
+able to manufacture a "fruit juice," but he cannot, as yet, manufacture
+the actual fruit. The mysterious life force always evades him. Fruit is
+a vital food, it supplies the body with something over and above the
+mere elements that the chemist succeeds in isolating by analysis. The
+vegetable kingdom possesses the power of directly utilising minerals,
+and it is only in this "live" form that they are fit for the consumption
+of man. In the consumption of sodium chloride (common table salt),
+baking powders, and the whole army of mineral drugs and essences, we
+violate that decree of Nature which ordains that the animal kingdom
+shall feed upon the vegetable and the vegetable upon the mineral.
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[1] This was the original treatment; now other food is added, although
+excellent results were obtained under the old _regime_.
+
+
+_Fruit and the Teeth._
+
+I mention the above because one of the objections that I have heard
+cited against the free use of fruit is that "the acids act injuriously
+upon the teeth." Until I became a vegetarian I used to visit a dentist
+regularly every six months. I had done this for ten years, and nearly
+every tooth in my gums had its gold filling. The last time I visited the
+dentist I told him that I had become a vegetarian, and he replied that
+he rather thought my teeth would decay quicker in future on account of
+an increased consumption of vegetable acids. But from that day, now
+nearly six years ago, to the present time, I have never been near a
+dentist. My teeth seem to have taken a new lease of life. It is a fact
+that the acids in fruit and vegetables so far from injuring the teeth
+benefit them. Many of these acids are strongly antiseptic and actually
+destroy the germs that cause the teeth to decay. On the other hand, they
+do _not_ attack the enamel of the teeth, while inorganic acids do.
+Nothing cleanses the teeth so effectually as to thoroughly chew a large
+and juicy apple.
+
+
+_Fruit is a Food._
+
+Until quite recently the majority of English-speaking people have been
+accustomed to look upon fruit not as a food, but rather as a sweetmeat,
+to be eaten merely for pleasure, and therefore very sparingly. It has
+consequently been banished from its rightful place at the beginning of
+meals. But fruit is not a "goody," it is a food, and, moreover, a
+complete food. All vegetable foods (in their natural state) contain all
+the elements necessary to form a complete food. At a pinch human life
+might be supported on any one of them. I say "at a pinch" because if
+the nuts cereals and pulses were ruled out of the dietary it would, for
+most people, be deficient in fat and proteid (the flesh and
+muscle-forming element). Nevertheless, fruit alone _will_ sustain life
+if taken in large quantities with small output of energy on the part of
+the person living upon it, as witness the "grape cure."[2] The
+percentage of proteid in grapes is particularly high for fruit.
+
+Those people who desire to make a fruitarian dietary their daily
+_regime_ cannot do better than take the advice of O. Hashnu Hara, an
+American writer. He says: "Every adult requires from twelve to sixteen
+ounces of dry food, _free from water_, daily. To supply this a quarter
+of a pound of _shelled_ nuts and three-quarters of a pound of any dried
+fruit must be used. In addition to this, from two to three pounds of
+any _fresh fruit_ in season goes to complete the day's allowance. These
+quantities should be weighed out ... and will sustain a full-grown man
+in perfect health and vitality. The quantity of ripe fresh fruit may be
+slightly increased in summer, with a corresponding decrease in the dried
+fruit."
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[2] Recent years have witnessed a modification of the original cure.
+Other food is now included, but I have not heard that the results are
+better.
+
+
+_Objections to Fruit._
+
+Some vegetarians object that it is possible to eat too much fruit, and
+recommend caution in the use of it to people of nervous temperament, or
+those who seem predisposed to skin ailments. It is true that the
+consumption of large quantities of fruit may appear to render the
+nervous person more irritable, and to increase the external
+manifestations of a skin disease. But in the latter event the fruit is
+merely assisting Nature to throw the disease out and off more quickly,
+while in the former case the real cause lies not in the fruit but in
+some nerve irritant, tea, for example, the effects of which are more
+acutely felt under the new _regime_. The nervous system tends to become
+much more sensitive upon a vegetarian, especially fruitarian, diet, and
+people often attribute their increased nervousness and irritability to
+the diet when it is simply that they now react more quickly to poisons.
+This is not a bad thing, on the contrary, it shows that the system has
+become more alert. Under the old _regime_ we tend to store up poisons
+and impurities in the body, but the effect of a vegetable diet,
+especially when united with the use of distilled water, is to cause all
+our diseases and impurities to be expelled outwards and downwards. Tea
+is a slow poison, and so is coffee except under exceptional conditions
+when it is used as a medicine, and then it should always be
+pale-roasted.
+
+Fruit should always be eaten at the beginning of a meal. Again, when the
+diet consists of a mixture of cooked and uncooked foods, the uncooked
+should always be eaten first. Also when the meal consists of two
+courses, a sweet and a savoury dish, sufferers from indigestion should
+try taking the sweet course first. I have known several cases where this
+simple expedient has resulted in a complete cessation of the discomfort
+of which the patient complained.
+
+
+_A Pioneer of Food Remedies._
+
+The pioneer, in England, of the treatment of all sorts and conditions of
+disease by means of a vegetable (chiefly fruit) dietary was Dr. Lambe, a
+contemporary of the poet Shelley. His last book appeared in 1815, and in
+it and the one preceding are recorded some wonderful cures, especially
+in cases of cancer. It is only fair to add here that in Dr. Lambe's
+opinion no system of cure is completely efficacious so long as the
+patient is allowed to drink the ordinary tap or well water. Distilled
+water was the only drink he advised. But he held it better still not to
+drink at all if the necessary liquid could be supplied to the body by
+means of fresh, juicy fruits. He contended that man is not naturally a
+drinking animal; that his thirst is a morbid symptom, the outcome of a
+carnivorous diet and other unwholesome habits. And I think that anyone
+may prove the truth of this for him or herself if he or she will adopt a
+fruitarian dietary and abstain from the use of salt and other
+condiments.
+
+I have cited so out-of-date a personage as Dr. Lambe for two reasons.
+The first is that I know many of the so-called new and unorthodox ideas
+are more likely to appeal to some readers, if it can be shown that they
+originated with a duly qualified medical practitioner who recorded the
+results of his observations and experiments in black and white. The
+second is that the principles and practices of Dr. Lambe are
+incorporated with those of the Physical Regeneration Society, a large
+and ever-increasing body of enthusiasts having its head-quarters in
+London, to whose annals I must refer those readers who desire up-to-date
+instances of the efficacy of the use of fruit in disease. Lack of space
+will not allow me to quote them here.
+
+
+_The Simple Life._
+
+We hear a great deal about the "Simple Life" and "Returning to Nature"
+nowadays, but most of us are so situated that the proposed simplicity
+simply spells increased complexity. The "vegetarian chop" costs the
+housewife more than double the time and labour involved in preparing its
+fleshly namesake. And when it comes to illness some of the systems of
+bathing and exercising prescribed by the "naturopath" are infinitely
+more troublesome to the patient and his friends than the simple
+expedient of sending for the doctor and taking the prescribed doses. I
+do not want to be misunderstood here. I am not condemning treatment
+with water and exercises. On the contrary, I hope to pass on what I have
+learnt about these methods of treatment. But so many people lack the
+time, help, and conveniences necessary to carry them out successfully.
+It is to these that I would say that the patient's cure may be effected
+just as surely, if more slowly, by means of fruit alone.
+
+
+_Fruit or Fasting._
+
+Treatment of disease by fasting has come into fashion of late, and there
+is really no lack of proof as to the benefits to be obtained from
+abstaining entirely from food for a short period. I know of an elderly
+man who fasts for a fortnight every spring, and gains, not loses, weight
+during the process! He accounts for this by explaining that certain
+stored up, undigested food particles come out and are digested while he
+fasts. Whether this is the correct explanation I do not know, but the
+fact remains, and it is not by any means a solitary case. Of course, the
+majority of people lose weight when fasting, but this is very quickly
+recovered. Now I do not think fasting should be undertaken recklessly,
+but only under competent direction. But an excellent and safe substitute
+for a fast is an exclusive fruit diet.
+
+
+_Acute Illness._
+
+The simplest and quickest method of recovering from attacks of acute
+illness, fevers, inflammatory diseases, etc., is to rest quietly in bed
+in a warm but well-ventilated room, and to take three meals a day of
+fresh ripe fruit, grapes by preference. If the grapes are grown out of
+doors and ripened in the sun so much the better. I have found from two
+to three pounds of grapes per day sufficient. If there is thirst, barley
+water flavoured with lemon juice should be taken between the meals.
+
+
+
+
+PART II.--FOODS AND THEIR MEDICINAL USES
+
+
+
+
+_Almond._
+
+Almond soup is an excellent substitute for beef-tea for convalescents.
+It is made by simply blanching and pounding a quarter of a pound of
+sweet almonds with half a pint of milk, or vegetable stock. Another pint
+of milk or stock is then to be added and the whole warmed. After this
+add another pint and a half of stock if the soup is to be a vegetable
+one, or rice water if milk has been used.
+
+An emulsion of almonds is useful in chest affections. It is made by well
+macerating the nuts in a nut butter machine, and mixing with orange or
+lemon juice.
+
+Almonds should always be blanched, that is, skinned by pouring boiling
+water on the nuts and allowing them to soak for one minute, after which
+the skins are easily removed. The latter possess irritating properties.
+
+Bitter almonds should not be used as a food. They contain a poison
+identical with prussic acid.
+
+
+_Apple._
+
+It is hardly possible to take up any newspaper or magazine now a days
+without happening on advertisements of patent medicines whose chief
+recommendation is that they "contain phosphorus." They are generally
+very expensive, but the reader is assured that they are worth ten times
+the price asked on account of their wonderful properties as nerve and
+brain foods. The proprietors of these concoctions seemingly flourish
+like green bay trees and spend many thousands of pounds per annum in
+advertising. From which it may be deduced that sufferers from nervous
+exhaustion and brain fag number millions. And surely only a sufferer
+from brain fag would suffer himself to be led blindly into wasting his
+money, and still further injuring his health, by buying and swallowing
+drugs about whose properties and effects he knows absolutely nothing.
+How much simpler, cheaper, and more enjoyable to eat apples!
+
+The apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other
+fruit or vegetable. For this reason it is an invaluable nerve and brain
+food. Sufferers from nerve and brain exhaustion should eat at least two
+apples _at the beginning of each meal_. At the same time they should
+avoid tea and coffee, and supply their place with barley water or bran
+tea flavoured with lemon juice, or even apple tea.
+
+Apples are also invaluable to sufferers from the stone or calculus. It
+has been observed that in cider countries where the natural unsweetened
+cider is the common beverage, cases of stone are practically unknown.
+Food-reformers do not deduce from this that the drinking of cider is to
+be recommended, but that even better results may be obtained from eating
+the fresh, ripe fruit.
+
+Apples periodically appear upon the tables of carnivorous feeders in the
+form of apple sauce. This accompanies bilious dishes like roast pork and
+roast goose. The cook who set this fashion was evidently acquainted with
+the action of the fruit upon the liver. All sufferers from sluggish
+livers should eat apples.
+
+Apples will afford much relief to sufferers from gout. The malic acid
+contained in them neutralises the chalky matter which causes the gouty
+patient's sufferings.
+
+Apples, when eaten ripe and without the addition of sugar, diminish
+acidity in the stomach. Certain vegetable salts are converted into
+alkaline carbonates, and thus correct the acidity.
+
+An old remedy for weak or inflamed eyes is an apple poultice. I am told
+that in Lancashire they use rotten apples for this purpose, but
+personally I should prefer them sound.
+
+A good remedy for a sore or relaxed throat is to take a raw ripe apple
+and scrape it to a fine pulp with a silver teaspoon. Eat this pulp by
+the spoonful, very slowly, holding it against the back of the throat as
+long as possible before swallowing.
+
+A diet consisting chiefly of apples has been found an excellent cure for
+inebriety. Health and strength may be fully maintained upon fine
+wholemeal unleavened bread, pure dairy or nut butter, and apples.
+
+Apple water or apple tea is an excellent drink for fever patients.
+
+Apples possess tonic properties and provoke appetite for food. Hence the
+old-fashioned custom of eating an apple before dinner.
+
+
+_Apple Tea._
+
+The following are two good recipes for apple tea:-- (1) Take 2 sound
+apples, wash, but do not peel, and cut into thin slices. Add some strips
+of lemon rind. Pour on 1 pint of boiling water (distilled). Strain when
+cold. (2) Bake 2 apples. Pour over them 1 pint boiling water. Strain
+when cold.
+
+
+_Asparagus._
+
+Asparagus is said to strengthen and develop the artistic faculties. It
+also calms palpitation of the heart. It is very helpful to rheumatic
+patients on account of its salts of potash. It should be steamed, not
+boiled, otherwise part of the valuable salts are lost.
+
+
+_Banana._
+
+The banana is invaluable in inflammation of all kinds. For this reason
+it is very useful in cases of typhoid fever, gastritis, peritonitis,
+etc., and may constitute the only food allowed for a time.
+
+Not only does it actually subdue the inflammation of the intestines,
+but, in the opinion of at least one authority, as it consists of 95 per
+cent. nutriment, it does not possess sufficient waste matter to irritate
+the inflamed spots.
+
+But great care should be taken in its administration. The banana should
+be _thoroughly sound and ripe_, and all the stringy portion carefully
+removed. It should then be mashed and beaten to a cream. In severe cases
+I think it is better to give this neat, but if not liked by the patient
+a little lemon juice, well mixed in, may render it more acceptable. It
+may also be taken with fresh cream.
+
+A friend who has had a very wide experience in illness told me that she
+was once hurriedly sent for at night to a girl suffering from
+peritonitis. Not knowing what she might, or might not, find in the way
+of remedies when she arrived at her destination, my friend took with her
+some strong barley water, bananas, and an enema syringe. She found the
+girl lying across the bed screaming, obviously in agony. First of all my
+friend administered a warm water enema. A pint of plain warm water was
+injected first, and after this had come away as much warm water as could
+be got in was injected and then allowed to come away. The object of this
+was to thoroughly wash out the bowels. Then the barley water was warmed,
+the bananas mashed, beaten to cream, and mixed in with the barley water.
+A soothing nutrient lotion was thus prepared, and as much as the patient
+could bear comfortably was injected in the bowel and retained as long as
+possible. The effect was magical. The pain subsided, and the patient
+ultimately recovered.
+
+In the absence of _perfectly_ ripe bananas, baked bananas may be used.
+But, although better than no fruit at all, cooked fruit is never so
+valuable as the fresh fruit, if only the latter be perfectly ripe.
+Bananas should be baked in their skins, and the stringy pieces carefully
+removed before eating. From twenty minutes to half an hour's slow
+cooking is required.
+
+Bananas are excellent food for anaemic persons on account of the iron
+they contain. A very palatable way of taking them is with fresh orange
+juice.
+
+A comparatively old-fashioned remedy, for sprained or bruised places
+that show a tendency to become inflamed is to apply a plaster of banana
+skin.
+
+
+_Barley._
+
+Barley is excellent food for the anaemic and nervous on account of its
+richness in iron and phosphoric acid. It is also useful in fevers and
+all inflammatory diseases, on account of its soothing properties. From
+the earliest times barley water has been the recognised drink of the
+sick.
+
+
+_Barley Water._
+
+When using pearl barley for making barley water it must be well washed.
+The fine white dust that adheres to it is most unwholesome. For this
+reason the cook is generally directed to first boil the barley for five
+minutes, and throw this water away. But in this way some of the valuable
+properties are thrown away with the dirt. The best results are obtained
+by well washing it in cold water, but this must be done over and over
+again. Half-a-dozen waters will not be too many. After the last washing
+the water should be perfectly clear.
+
+When barley water is being used for curative purposes it should be
+strong. The following recipe is an excellent one. A 1/2 pint of barley
+to 21/2 pints water (distilled if possible). Boil for three hours, or
+until reduced to 2 pints. Strain and add 4 teaspoonfuls fresh lemon
+juice. Sweeten to taste with pure cane sugar.
+
+Fine Scotch barley is to be preferred to the pearl barley if it can be
+obtained.
+
+
+_Blackberry._
+
+Fresh blackberries are one of the most effectual cures for diarrhoea
+known. Mr. Broadbent records the case of a child who was cured by eating
+an abundance of blackberries after five doctors had tried all the known
+remedies in vain.
+
+
+_Blackberry Tea._
+
+In the absence of the fresh fruit a tea made of blackberry jelly and hot
+water (a large tablespoonful of jelly to half a pint water) will be
+found very useful. A teacupful should be taken at short intervals.
+
+
+_Blackberry Jelly._
+
+To make blackberry jelly get the first fruit of the season if possible,
+and see that it is ripe or it will yield very little juice. Put it into
+the preserving pan, crush it, and allow it to simmer slowly until the
+juice is well drawn out. This will take from three-quarters to one hour.
+Strain through a jelly bag, or fine clean muslin doubled will do. Then
+measure the juice, and to every pint allow 3/4 lb. best cane sugar.
+Return to the pan and boil briskly for from twenty minutes to half an
+hour. Stir with a wooden spoon and keep well skimmed. To test, put a
+little of the jelly on a cold plate, and if it sets when cold it is
+done. While still at boiling point pour into clean, dry, and _hot_
+jars, and tie down with parchment covers immediately.
+
+
+_Black Currant._
+
+Black currant tea is one of the oldest of old-fashioned remedies for
+sore throats and colds. It is made by pouring half a pint of boiling
+water on to a large tablespoonful of the jelly or jam. To make the jelly
+use the same recipe as for blackberry jelly.
+
+The fresh juice pressed from the fruit is, of course, better than tea
+made from the jelly, but as winter is the season of coughs and colds the
+fruit is least obtainable when most needed.
+
+
+_Brazil Nut._
+
+Brazil nuts are excellent for constipation. They are also a good
+substitute for suet in puddings. Use 5 oz. nuts to 1 lb. flour. They
+should be grated in a nut mill or finely chopped.
+
+
+_Beans, Peas, and Lentils._
+
+Beans, peas, and lentils are tabooed by the followers of Dr. Haig, the
+gout specialist, on account of the belief that they tend to increase the
+secretion of uric acid. But this evil propensity is stoutly denied by
+other food-reformers. For myself I am inclined to believe that their
+supposed indigestibility, etc., arises from the fact that they are
+generally cooked in hard water. They should be cooked in distilled or
+boiled and filtered rain water. The addition of lemon juice while
+cooking renders them much more digestible.
+
+According to Sir Henry Thomson haricot beans are more easily digested
+than meat by most stomachs. "Consuming weight for weight, the eater
+feels lighter and less oppressed, as a rule, after the leguminous dish;
+while the comparative cost is greatly in favour of the latter."
+
+Lentils are the most easily digested of all the pulse foods, and
+therefore the most suitable for weakly persons. A soup made of
+distilled water and red lentils may be taken twice a week with
+advantage. Lentils contain a good percentage of iron, and also
+phosphates.
+
+
+_Beet._
+
+The red beet is useful in some diseases of the womb, while the white
+beet is good for the liver. It is laxative and diuretic. The juice mixed
+with olive oil is also recommended to be applied externally for burns
+and all kinds of running sores.
+
+
+_Cabbage._
+
+All the varieties of the colewort tribe, including cabbage, cauliflower,
+brussels-sprouts, broccoli, and curly greens, have been celebrated from
+very ancient times for their curative virtues in pulmonary complaints.
+And Athenian doctors prescribed cabbage for nursing mothers. On account
+of the sulphur contained in them cabbages are good for rheumatic
+patients. They may be eaten steamed, or, better still, boiled in soft
+water and the broth only taken. The ordinary boiled cabbage is an
+indigestible "windy" vegetable, and should never be eaten.
+
+
+_Caraway Seed._
+
+Caraway seeds sharpen the vision, promote the secretion of milk, and are
+good against hysterical affections. They are also useful in cases of
+colic. When used to flavour cakes the seeds should be pounded in a
+mortar, especially if children are to partake thereof.
+
+When used medicinally 20 grains of the powdered seeds may be taken in a
+wineglassful of hot water. But for children half an ounce of the bruised
+seeds are to be infused in cold water for six hours, and from 1 to 3
+teaspoonfuls of this water given.
+
+A poultice of crushed caraway seeds moistened with hot water is good for
+sprains.
+
+Caraway seeds are narcotic, and should therefore be used with caution.
+
+
+_Carrot._
+
+Carrots are strongly antiseptic. They are said to be mentally
+invigorating and nerve restoring. They have the reputation of being very
+indigestible on account of the fact that they are generally boiled, not
+steamed. When used medicinally it is best to take the fresh, raw juice.
+This is easily obtained by grating the carrot finely on a common penny
+bread grater, and straining and pressing the pulp thus obtained.
+
+Raw carrot juice, or a raw carrot eaten fasting, will expel worms. The
+cooked carrot is useless for this purpose.
+
+A poultice of fresh carrot pulp will heal ulcers.
+
+Fresh carrot juice is also good for consumptives on account of the large
+amount of sugar it contains.
+
+Carrots are very good for gouty subjects and for derangements of the
+liver.
+
+
+_Celery._
+
+Celery is almost a specific for rheumatism, gout, and nervous
+indigestion. The most useful plants for this purpose are small, not too
+rapidly grown nor very highly manured.
+
+It may be eaten raw, or steamed, or in soup. Strong celery broth
+flavoured with parsley is excellent.
+
+
+_Cresses._
+
+All the cresses are anti-scorbutic, that is, useful against the scurvy.
+The ancient Greeks also believed them to be good for the brain.
+
+The ordinary "mustard and cress" of our salads is good for rheumatic
+patients, while the water-cress is valuable in cases of tubercular
+disease. Anaemic patients may also eat freely of it on account of the
+iron it contains. Care should be taken, however, from whence it is
+procured, as a disease peculiar to sheep but communicable to man may be
+carried by it. It should not be gathered from streams running through
+meadows inhabited by sheep.
+
+
+_Chestnut._
+
+Chestnuts, when cooked, are valuable food for persons with weak
+digestive powers. They should be put on the fire in a saucepan of cold
+water and cooked for twenty minutes from the time the water first boils.
+John Evelyn, F.R.S., a seventeenth century writer, says of them: "They
+are a lusty and masculine food for rustics at all times, and of better
+nourishment for husbandmen than cole and rusty bacon, yea, or beans to
+boot."
+
+
+_Cinnamon._
+
+Cinnamon is a very old-fashioned remedy for soothing the pain of
+internal or unbroken cancer. One prescription is the following: Take
+1 lb. of Ceylon sticks. Simmer in a closed vessel with 1 quart of water
+until the liquid is reduced to 1 pint. Pour off without straining, and
+shake or stir well before taking. Take half a pint every twenty-four
+hours. Divide into small doses and take regularly.
+
+Cinnamon has a powerful influence over disease germs, but care must be
+taken to obtain it pure. It is often adulterated with cassia.
+
+Cinnamon tea may be taken with advantage in cases of consumption,
+influenza, and pneumonia.
+
+
+_Cocoanut._
+
+Cocoanut is an old and very efficacious remedy for intestinal worms of
+all kinds. A tablespoonful of freshly-ground cocoanut should be taken at
+breakfast until the cure is complete. The dessicated cocoanut is useless
+for curative purposes.
+
+
+_Coffee._
+
+Coffee is a most powerful antiseptic, and therefore very useful as a
+disinfectant. It has been used as a specific against cholera with
+marvellous results, and is useful in all cases of intestinal
+derangement. But only the pale-roasted varieties should be taken, as the
+roasting develops the poisonous, irritating properties. There is
+_always_ danger in the roasting of grains or berries on account of the
+new substances that may be developed.
+
+I do not recommend coffee as a beverage, but as a medicine.
+
+
+_Date._
+
+The nourishing properties of dates are well known. They are easily
+digested, and for this reason are often recommended to consumptive
+patients.
+
+According to Dr. Fernie half a pound of dates and half a pint of new
+milk will make a satisfying repast for a person engaged in sedentary
+work.
+
+
+_Elderberry._
+
+The elderberry has fallen into neglect of late years, owing to the lazy
+and disastrous modern habit of substituting the mineral drugs of the
+chemist for the home-made vegetable remedies of our grandmothers.
+Nevertheless, the elderberry is one of the most ancient and tried of
+medicines, held in such great esteem in Germany that, according to the
+German folk-lore, men should take off their hats in the presence of an
+elder-tree. In Denmark there is a legend to the effect that the trees
+are under the protection of a being known as the Elder-Mother, who has
+been immortalised in one of the fairy tales of Hans Andersen.
+
+The berries of the elder-tree are not palatable enough to be used as a
+common article of food, but in the days when nearly every garden boasted
+its elder-tree few housewives omitted to make elderberry wine in due
+season.
+
+It is not permitted to "food-reformers" to make "wine," but those
+readers who are fortunate enough to possess an elder-tree might well
+preserve the juice of the berries against winter coughs and colds.
+
+
+_Preserved Fruit Juice._
+
+The following is E. and B. May's recipe for preserving fruit juice. Put
+the fruit into a preserving-pan, crush it and allow it to simmer slowly
+until the juice is well drawn out. This will take about an hour. Press
+out the juice and strain through a jelly-bag until quite clear. Put the
+juice back into the pan, and to every quart add a quarter of a pound of
+best cane sugar. Stir until dissolved. Put the juice into clean, dry
+bottles. Stand the bottles in a pan of hot water, and when the latter
+has come to the boil allow the bottles to remain in the boiling water
+for fifteen minutes. The idea is to bring the juice inside the bottles
+to boiling point just before sealing up, but not to boil it. See that
+the bottles are _full_. Cork _immediately_ on taking out of the pan,
+and then seal up. To seal mix a little plaster of Paris with water and
+spread it well over the cork. Let it come a little below the cork so as
+to exclude all air.
+
+The juice of the elderberry is famous for promoting perspiration, hence
+its efficacy in the cure of colds. Two tablespoonfuls should be taken at
+bed-time in a tumbler of hot water.
+
+The juice of the elderberry is excellent in fevers, and is also said to
+promote longevity.
+
+
+_Elderberry Poultice._
+
+"The leaves of the elder, boiled until they are soft, with a little
+linseed oil added thereto," laid upon a scarlet cloth and applied, as
+hot as it can be borne, to piles, has been said to be an infallible
+remedy. Each time this poultice gets cold it must be renewed for "the
+space of an hour." At the end of this time the final dressing is to be
+"bound on," and the patient "put warm to bed." If necessary the whole
+operation is to be repeated; but the writer assures us that "this hath
+not yet failed at the first dressing to cure the disease." If any reader
+desires to try the experiment I would suggest that the leaves be steamed
+rather than boiled, and pure olive oil used in the place of linseed oil.
+It must also be remembered that no outward application can be expected
+to effect a permanent cure, since the presence of piles indicates an
+effort of Nature to clear out some poison from the system. But if this
+expulsion is assisted by appropriate means the pain may well be
+alleviated by external applications. (Pepper should be avoided by
+sufferers from piles.)
+
+
+_Fig._
+
+A "lump of figs" laid on the boil of King Hezekiah, as recorded in 2
+Kings xx. 7, brought about that monarch's recovery. The figs used were
+doubtless ripe figs, not the dried figs of our grocers.
+
+"This fruit," says Dr. Fernie, "is soft, easily digested, and corrective
+of strumous disease." The large blue fig may be grown in England, in the
+milder parts and under a warm wall. The fresh figs were rarely seen at
+one time outside of the large "high-class" fruit shops, but for the last
+year or two I have seen them peddled in the streets of London like
+apples and oranges in due season.
+
+Green figs (not unripe) were commonly eaten by Roman gladiators, which
+is surely a sufficient tribute to the fruit's strength-giving qualities.
+
+The best way of preparing dried figs for eating is to wash them very
+quickly in warm water, and steam for twenty minutes or until tender.
+
+
+_Grape._
+
+The special value of the grape lies in the fact that it is a very quick
+repairer of bodily waste, the grape sugar being taken immediately into
+the circulation without previous digestion. For this reason is grape
+juice the best possible food for fever patients, consumptives, and all
+who are in a weak and debilitated condition. The grapes should be well
+chewed, the juice and pulp swallowed, and the skin and stones rejected.
+
+In countries where the grape cure is practised, consumptive patients are
+fed on the sweeter varieties of grape, while those troubled with liver
+complaints, acid gout, or other effects of over-feeding, take the less
+sweet kinds.
+
+Dr. Fernie deprecates the use of grapes for the ordinary gouty or
+rheumatic patient, but with all due deference to that learned authority,
+I do not believe the fruit exists that is not beneficial to the gouty
+person. One of the most gouty and rheumatic people I know, a vegetarian
+who certainly never over-feeds himself, derives great benefit from a few
+days' almost exclusive diet of grapes.
+
+Cream of tartar, a potash salt obtained from the crust formed upon
+bottles and casks by grape juice when it is undergoing fermentation in
+the process of becoming wine, is often used as a medicine. It has been
+cited as an infallible specific in cases of smallpox, but I do not
+recommend its use, as it probably gets contaminated with other
+substances during the process of manufacture. In any case its value
+cannot be compared with the fresh, ripe fruit. I have little doubt but
+that an exclusive diet of grapes, combined with warmth, proper bathing,
+and the absence of drugs, would suffice to cure the most malignant case
+of smallpox.
+
+Sufferers from malaria may use grapes with great benefit. For this
+purpose the grapes, with the skins and stones, should be well pounded in
+a mortar and allowed to stand for three hours. The juice should then be
+strained off and taken. Or persons with good teeth may eat the grapes,
+including the skins and stones, if they thoroughly macerate the latter.
+
+In the absence of fresh grapes raisin-tea is a restoring and nourishing
+drink. Dr. Fernie notes that it is of the same proteid value as milk, if
+made in the proportions given below. It is much more easily digested
+than milk, and therefore of great use in gastric complaints. Sufferers
+from chronic gastritis could not do better than make raisin-tea their
+sole drink, and bananas their only food for a time.
+
+
+_Raisin Tea._
+
+To make raisin-tea, take half a pound of good raisins and wash well, but
+quickly, in lukewarm water. Cut up roughly and put into the
+old-fashioned beef-tea jar with a quart of _distilled_ or boiled and
+filtered _rain_ water. Cook for four hours, or until the liquid is
+reduced to 1 pint. Scald a fine hair sieve and press through it all
+except the skins and stones. If desired a little lemon juice may be
+added.
+
+
+_Gooseberry._
+
+The juice of green gooseberries "cureth all inflammations," while the
+red gooseberry is good for bilious subjects. But it has been said that
+gooseberries are not good for melancholy persons.
+
+Gooseberries are an excellent "spring medicine."
+
+
+_Lavender._
+
+It is very much to be regretted that the nerve-soothing vegetable
+perfumes of our grandmothers have been superseded, for the most part, by
+the cheap mineral products of the laboratory. Scents really prepared
+from the flowers that give them their names are expensive to make, and
+consequently high-priced. The cheap scents are all mineral concoctions,
+and their use is more or less injurious. A penny-worth of dried lavender
+flowers in a muslin bag is even cheaper to buy, inoffensive to
+smell--which is more than can be said of cheap manufactured scents--and
+possesses medicinal properties.
+
+Lavender flowers were formerly used for their curative virtues in all
+disorders of the head and nerves.
+
+An oil, prepared by infusing the crushed lavender flowers in olive oil,
+is recommended for anointing palsied limbs, and at one time a spirit was
+prepared from lavender flowers which was known as "palsy drops."
+
+A tea made with hot water and lavender tops will relieve the headache
+that comes from fatigue.
+
+Dr. Fernie advises 1 dessertspoonful per day of pure lavender water for
+eczema.
+
+The scent of lavender will keep away flies, fleas, and moths.
+
+
+_Lemon._
+
+Lemons are invaluable in cases of gout, malaria, rheumatism, and scurvy.
+They are also useful in fevers and liver complaints.
+
+I have found the juice of one lemon taken in a little hot water remove
+dizzy feelings in the head, accompanied by specks and lights dancing
+before the eyes, consequent upon the liver being out of order, in half
+an hour.
+
+The juice of a lemon in hot water may be taken night and morning with
+advantage by sufferers from rheumatism. In the "lemon cure" for gout and
+rheumatism, the patients begin with one lemon per day and increase the
+quantity until they arrive at a dozen or more. But I think this is
+carrying it to excess. Dr. Fernie recommends the juice of one lemon
+mixed with an equal proportion of hot water, to be taken pretty
+frequently, in cases of rheumatic fever.
+
+A prescription for malaria, given in the _Lancet_, is the following:
+"Take a full-sized lemon, cut it in thin transverse slices, rind and
+all, boil these down in an earthenware jar containing a pint and a half
+of water, until the decoction is reduced to half a pint. Let this cool
+on the window-sill overnight, and drink it off in the morning."
+
+A Florentine doctor discovered that fresh lemon juice will alleviate
+the pain of cancerous ulceration of the tongue. His patient sucked
+slices of lemon.
+
+A German doctor found that fresh lemon juice kills the diptheria
+bacillus, and advises a gargle of diluted lemon juice to diptheric
+patients. Such a gargle is excellent for sore throat.
+
+Dr. Fernie recommends lemon juice for nervous palpitation of the heart.
+
+Lemon juice rubbed on to corns will eventually do away with them, and if
+applied to unbroken chilblains will effect a cure.
+
+Lemon juice is also an old remedy for the removal of freckles and
+blackheads from the face. It should be rubbed in at bedtime, after
+washing with warm water.
+
+
+_Lettuce._
+
+Lettuce is noted for its sedative properties, although these are not
+great in the large, highly-manured, commercial specimens. It is very
+easily digested, and may, therefore, be eaten by those with whom salads
+disagree in the ordinary way.
+
+
+_Nettle._
+
+The tender tops of young nettles picked in the spring make a delicious
+vegetable, somewhat resembling spinach. They are excellent for sufferers
+from gout and skin eruptions.
+
+Fresh nettle juice is prescribed in doses of from 1 to 2 tablespoonfuls
+for loss of blood from the lungs, nose, or internal organs.
+
+
+_Nuts._
+
+Nuts are the true substitute for flesh meat. They contain everything in
+the way of nourishment that meat contains, minus the poisonous
+constituents of the latter. They are very rich in proteid (flesh and
+muscle former) and fat. In addition they possess all the constituents
+that go to make up a perfect food. Nuts and water form a complete
+dietary, although I do not suggest that any reader should try it. If he
+did so he would probably eat too many nuts, not realising how great an
+amount of nourishment is contained in a concentrated form. No one should
+eat more than a quarter of a pound of nuts per day, in addition to other
+food. A pound per day would be more than sufficient if no other food
+were taken. I have little doubt but that the diet of the future will
+consist solely of nuts and fresh fruit. After all it is the food most
+favoured by monkeys, and our teeth and digestive apparatus more nearly
+resemble those of the monkey than the carnivorous and herbivorous
+animals so many of us seemingly prefer to imitate.
+
+The chief objection to nuts is supposed to be on account of their
+indigestibility. But this has its foundation, not in the nut, but in the
+manner of eating it. I recommend all those people who find nuts
+indigestible to pay a visit to the Zoo and see how the monkey eats his
+nuts. He chews and chews and chews. And after that he chews!
+
+I know, alas! that the majority of people do not possess teeth like the
+monkey, and to these I can only suggest that they macerate their nuts in
+a nut butter machine. There are several of these machines on the market,
+and they are stocked by all large "Food-Reform" provision dealers. They
+cost anything from six or seven shillings. The daily allowance of nuts
+may be thoroughly macerated and eaten with fruit in the place of cream.
+Ordinary people may use a nut-mill, which flakes, not macerates, the
+nuts. But people with bad teeth and a weak digestion will do better to
+invest in a nut butter machine. I may add that the nuts will not
+macerate properly unless they are crisp, and to this end they must be
+put in a warm oven for a short time, just before grinding. I have found
+new, English-grown walnuts crisp enough without this preparation. But if
+the nuts are _not_ crisp enough they will simply clog the machine.
+
+Now to our nuts! Almonds are the most nourishing. Next in order come
+walnuts, hazel or cob nuts, and Brazil nuts. The proteid value of these
+three does not differ much. After these come the chestnut and cocoanut,
+and lastly we have the pine kernel. Speaking very roughly, we may liken
+walnuts, hazel nuts, and Brazil nuts to beef for flesh and
+muscle-forming value, while pine kernels correspond more nearly to fish.
+Almonds are nearly double the value of beef.
+
+
+_Nut Cream._
+
+Doctor Fernie recommends the following nut-cream for brain-workers.
+Pound in a mortar, or mince finely, 3 blanched almonds, 2 walnuts, 2
+ounces of pine kernels. Steep overnight in orange or lemon juice.
+
+It should be made fresh daily, and may be used in place of butter.
+
+
+_Oat._
+
+The oat is generally cited as the most nourishing of all the cereals,
+and a good nerve food. The fine oatmeal gruel of our grandmothers has
+gone almost entirely out of fashion, but its use might be revived with
+advantage. Like wheat, it is a complete food. A good preparation of
+groats (ground oats from which the husk has been entirely removed) may
+be taken by those who find other preparations indigestible.
+
+Some persons seem unable to take oatmeal, its use being followed by a
+skin eruption. This is supposed to be due to a special constituent
+called "avenin," the existence of which, however, is denied by some
+authorities.
+
+There is little doubt but that persons of weak digestive powers and
+sedentary habits cannot digest porridge comfortably. In any case
+quickly-cooked porridge is an abomination.
+
+
+_Olive._
+
+The chief use of the olive, at least in this country, consists in the
+oil expressed from it. Unfortunately our so-called olive oil is
+generally cotton-seed oil. Captain Diamond of San Francisco, aged 111,
+and the oldest living athlete in the world, attributes much of his
+health to the use of olive oil. But he lays great stress upon the
+importance of obtaining it pure. Cotton-seed oil consists partly of an
+indigestible gum, and its continued ingestion tends to produce kidney
+trouble and heart failure.
+
+A simple test for purity is to use, the suspected sample for oiling
+floors or furniture. If pure, it will leave a beautiful polish minus
+grease. But if it contains cotton-seed oil, part of it will evaporate,
+leaving the gummy portion behind.
+
+When pure olive oil is shaken in a half-filled bottle, the bubbles
+formed thereby rapidly disappear, but if the sample is adulterated the
+bubbles continue some time before they burst.
+
+Pure olive oil is pale and a greenish yellow.
+
+If equal volumes of strong nitric acid (this may be obtained from any
+chemist) and olive oil are mixed together and shaken in a flask the
+resulting product has a greenish or orange tinge which remains unchanged
+after standing for ten minutes. But if cotton-seed oil is present, the
+mixture is reddish in colour, and becomes brown or black on standing.
+
+Olive oil is slightly laxative, and therefore useful to sufferers from
+constipation. It is also an excellent vermifuge.
+
+Olive oil has been used with great success in the treatment of gall
+stones. A Dr. Rosenberg reported that of twenty-one cases treated by
+"the ingestion of a considerable quantity of olive oil, only two failed
+of complete recovery."
+
+
+_Onion._
+
+The uses of the onion are many and varied. Fresh onion juice promotes
+perspiration, relieves constipation and bronchitis, induces sleep, is
+good for cases of scurvy and sufferers from lead colic. It is also
+excellent for bee and wasp stings.
+
+Onions are noted for their nerve-soothing properties. They are also
+beautifiers of the complexion. But moderation must be observed in their
+use or they are apt to disagree. Not everyone can digest onions,
+although I believe them to be more easily digested raw than cooked.
+
+A raw onion may be rubbed on unbroken chilblains with good results. If
+broken, the onion should be roasted. The heart of a roasted onion placed
+in the ear is an old-fashioned remedy for earache.
+
+Raw onions are a powerful antiseptic. They also attract disease germs to
+themselves, and for this reason may be placed in a sickroom with
+advantage. Needless to say, they should afterwards be burnt or buried.
+Culpeper, the ancient herbalist, says that they "draw corruption unto
+them." It is possibly for this reason that the Vedanta forbids them to
+devout Hindoos.
+
+Garlic possesses the same properties as the onion, but in a very much
+stronger degree. Leeks are very much milder than the onion.
+
+
+_Onion Juice._
+
+The following prescription is excellent for sufferers from bronchitis or
+coughs: Slice a Spanish onion; lay the slices in a basin and sprinkle
+well with pure cane sugar. Cover the basin tightly and leave for twelve
+hours. After this time the basin should contain a quantity of juice.
+Give a teaspoonful every now and then until relief is afforded. If too
+much be taken it may induce headache and vomiting.
+
+
+_Onion Poultice._
+
+An excellent poultice for the chest may be made by placing one or two
+English onions in a muslin bag and pounding them to a pulp. This should
+be renewed every three or four hours, and the chest washed. I have been
+told that, at the age of six weeks old, I was saved from dying of
+bronchitis by such an onion poultice applied to the soles of my feet.
+
+
+_Orange._
+
+The orange possesses most of the virtues of the lemon, but in a modified
+form. But it has the advantage of being more palatable.
+
+The juice of oranges has been observed to exert such a beneficial
+influence on the blood as to prevent and cure influenza. Taken freely
+while the attack is on they seemingly prevent the pneumonia that so
+often follows. By far the quickest way to overcome influenza is to
+subsist solely on oranges for three or four days. Hot distilled water
+may be taken in addition.
+
+The peel of the bitter Seville orange is an excellent tonic and remedy
+in cases of malaria and ague. A drink may be prepared from it according
+to the prescription under the heading "Lemon."
+
+The "orange cure" is used with great success for consumptive patients,
+for chest affections of all kinds, for asthma, and some stomach
+complaints. Oranges are taken freely at every meal. The "navel" kind are
+generally used.
+
+Herbalists sell dried orange pips to be crushed to a powder and taken in
+the proportion of 1 teaspoonful to a cup of hot water. This is a
+harmless sedative, and useful in hysterical affections.
+
+
+_Marmalade Tonic._
+
+A drink made with half a pint of hot water poured over a tablespoonful
+of good, home-made marmalade will often give relief in cases of
+neuralgia and pains in the head.
+
+
+_Parsley._
+
+Parsley is useful in cases of menstrual obstruction and diseases of the
+kidneys. The bruised leaves applied to the breasts of nursing mothers
+are said to cure painful lumps and threatened abscess. It may also be
+taken with advantage by cancerous patients. In all these cases parsley
+may be taken in the form of a soup, in common use among members of the
+Physical Regeneration Society, which consists of onions, tomatoes,
+celery, and parsley, stewed together in distilled water.
+
+Dr. Fernie remarks that when uncooked parsley has been eaten to excess
+it has been observed to produce epilepsy in certain bodily systems. The
+oil of parsley has also been found useful in cases of epilepsy. This
+would naturally follow on the homeopathic principle of similars.
+
+
+_Pear._
+
+The pear possesses most of the virtues of the apple. But, unlike the
+latter, it is credited with producing a constipating effect if eaten
+without its skin. In an old recipe book I found the following tribute to
+Bergamot pears. The writer says: "I had for some years been afflicted
+with the usual symptoms of the stone in the bladder, when meeting with
+Dr. Lobb's "Treatise of Dissolvents for the Stone and Gravel," I was
+induced on his recommendation to try Bergamot pears, a dozen or more
+every day with the rind, when in less than a week I observed a large red
+flake in my urine, which, on a slight touch, crumbled into the finest
+powder, and this was the same for several succeeding days. It is ten
+years since I made the experiment, and I have been quite free from any
+complaints of that nature ever since. The pears were of the small sort
+and full of knots."
+
+
+_Pea Nut._
+
+The pea nut--or monkey nut--is especially recommended as a cure for
+indigestion. I have not been able to find out why. As a matter of fact
+it is such a highly-concentrated food that, unless taken in very small
+quantities, it is liable to upset weak digestions. I suspect the secret
+to lie in the chewing. Almost any kind of nut will cure the habitual
+indigestion induced by "bolting" the food, if only it be chewed until it
+is liquid. Hard biscuits will do instead of nuts, although an uncooked
+food like the nut is the better. But whatever is taken must be
+"Fletcherised," that is, chewed and chewed and chewed until it is all
+reduced to liquid.
+
+Pea nuts contain a good deal of oil, and for this reason are recommended
+for consumptives. They are the cheapest nuts to buy, for the reason that
+they are not really nuts but beans.
+
+
+_Pine-apple._
+
+Pine-apple juice is the specific for diphtheria. This seems to have
+been first brought to the notice of Europeans by the fact that negroes
+living round about the swamps of Louisiana were observed to use it with
+great success. A writer who records this says: "The patient should be
+forced to swallow the juice. This fluid is of so pungent and corrosive a
+nature that it cuts out the diphtheria mucous and causes it to
+disappear."
+
+The above direction looks satisfactory enough on paper, and it is
+eminently cheering to read of how the pine-apple juice causes the
+diphtheria mucous to disappear, but anyone who knows anything about
+diphtheria knows that to "force" a diphtheria patient to swallow is more
+easily written about than accomplished. Fortunately I have been able to
+obtain the following explicit directions from an experienced nurse and
+mother:
+
+The pine-apple should be cut up and well pounded in a mortar. The juice
+must then be pressed out and strained through well-scalded muslin. The
+patient's mouth must be washed out with warm water. The juice may now be
+given with a silver teaspoon. It is possible that the patient may be
+quite unable to swallow any of it. If this be so, the juice will serve
+as a mouth and throat wash. It will gradually dissolve the membrane, and
+enable it to be scraped gently away with the spoon. The juice should be
+given, and the throat scraped as far down as the nurse can reach, as
+often as the patient can bear it. The time will come, sooner or later,
+when the juice is swallowed. No other food should be given. The nurse
+may have to work away for some hours before any juice is swallowed, but
+my friend assures me that if the scraping be done gently and skilfully,
+even children will bear it patiently. Only a silver or bone spoon should
+be used, and, needless to say, it must be well scalded in boiling water
+in the intervals of using.
+
+It is a remarkable fact that while pine-apple juice exercises this
+remarkable corrosive power upon diseased mucous, its effect upon the
+most delicate, healthy membrane is absolutely harmless. I have seen
+sweet pine-apple juice given to six-months-old babies as a supplement to
+the mother's milk, with excellent results.
+
+Dr. Hillier, writing in the _Herald of Health_ in 1897, says "Sliced
+pine-apples, laid in pure honey for a day or two, when used in
+moderation, will relieve the human being from chronic impaction of the
+bowels, reestablish peristaltic motion, and induce perfect digestion."
+
+"A slice of fresh pine-apple," writes Dr. Fernie, "is about as wise a
+thing as one can take by way of dessert after a substantial meal." This
+is because fresh pine-apple juice has been found to act upon animal food
+in very much the same way that the gastric juice acts within the
+stomach. But vegetarians should eat fresh fruit at the beginning of
+meals rather than at the end.
+
+The pine-apple is useful in all ordinary cases of sore-throat.
+
+One pine-apple of average size should yield half a pint of juice.
+
+Tinned or cooked pine-apple is useless for curative purposes.
+
+
+_Pine Kernel._
+
+Pine kernels are recommended to those who find other nuts difficult to
+digest. They are the most easily digested of all the nuts. They are
+often used for cooking in the place of suet, being very oily.
+
+
+_Plum, Prune._
+
+The disfavour with which "stone fruits," especially plums, are generally
+regarded owes its being to the fact that they are too often eaten when
+unripe. When ripe, they are as wholesome as any other fruit. Unripe they
+provoke choleraic diarrhoea.
+
+The prune, a variety of dried plum, has been recommended as a remedy
+against viciousness and irritability. An American doctor declares that
+there is a certain medicinal property in the prune which acts directly
+upon the nervous system, and that is where the evil passions have their
+seat. He reports that he tried the experiment of including prunes in the
+meals of the vicious, intractable youths of a reformatory, and that by
+the end of a week they were peaceable as lambs. Most writers who comment
+on this seem to suggest that any fruit which is mildly aperient would
+produce the same effect. But the mother of a large family tells me that
+she has observed that prunes seem to possess a soothing property that is
+all their own.
+
+
+_Prune Tea._
+
+Prune tea is an excellent drink for irritable persons. It is made as
+follows: To every pint of washed prunes allow 1 quart of distilled
+water. Soak the prunes all night, and afterwards simmer to rags in the
+same water. Strain, and flavour with lemon juice if desired.
+
+
+_Potato._
+
+The potato is a cheap and homely remedy against gout, scurvy, and
+rickets. Dr. Lambe tells how he cured a case of scurvy solely with raw
+potatoes. One of the favourite dishes of that good old doctor was a
+salad composed of sliced raw potatoes and olive oil.
+
+In order to preserve the medicinal properties of potatoes when cooked,
+they must always be steamed in their jackets. The skin may be removed
+before eating, but care should be taken not to allow a particle of the
+potato to adhere to it. The valuable potash salts chiefly lie just under
+the skin.
+
+A raw potato scraped or powdered to a pulp is an excellent remedy for
+burns and scalds.
+
+Dr. Fernie recommends the following decoction with which to bathe the
+swollen and inflamed joints of rheumatic sufferers. Take 1 lb.
+potatoes, cut each into four, but do not peel them. Boil in 2 pints of
+water until stewed down to 1 pint. Strain, and use the liquid.
+
+Eaten to excess potatoes are apt to cause dullness and laziness.
+
+
+_Radish._
+
+The radish is commonly cited as indigestible, but for all that it is
+commended by old writers as a potent remedy for stone. If not too old,
+well masticated, and eaten at the beginning of a meal, I do not think it
+is more indigestible than the majority of vegetables.
+
+A syrup made with the juice expressed from pounded radishes and cane
+sugar is recommended for rheumatism, bronchial troubles, whooping-cough,
+and pustular eruptions.
+
+Dr. Fernie notes that the black radish is especially useful against
+whooping-cough, probably by reason of its volatile, sulphureted oil.
+"It is employed in Germany for this purpose by cutting off the top, and
+then making a hole within the root, which hole is filled with treacle,
+or honey, and allowed to stand thus for two or three days; afterwards a
+teaspoonful of the medicated liquid is to be given two or three times in
+the day, with a dessertspoonful of water, when required."
+
+I am not acquainted with the "black radish," but mothers might do worse,
+in cases of whooping-cough, than give their children the juice of
+pounded radishes mixed with pure honey.
+
+
+_Raspberry._
+
+Raspberries are excellent against the scurvy, and, like the blackberry,
+good for relaxed bowels. They are a very wholesome fruit, and should be
+given to those who have "weak and queasy stomachs."
+
+
+_Rice._
+
+The chief medicinal value of rice lies in the quickness with which it
+is digested. One authority says that "it can be taken four times a day
+and the patient still get twenty hours' rest." It is consequently of
+great value in digestive and intestinal troubles. But it should be
+_unpolished_, otherwise it is an ill-balanced, deficient food. It should
+likewise be boiled in only just enough soft water to be absorbed during
+the cooking. One cup of rice should be put on in a double saucepan with
+three cups of cold water and tightly covered. When the water is all
+absorbed the rice will be cooked.
+
+The large-grained, unpolished rice sold at "Food-Reform" stores at 3d.
+per lb. absorbs the water and cooks much more easily than a smaller
+variety sold at 2d. I have found the latter most unsatisfactory.
+
+
+_Rhubarb._
+
+Rhubarb is a wholesome and cooling spring vegetable, and may well take
+the place of cooked fruit when the latter is scarce. But it is
+generally forbidden to rheumatic and gouty patients on account of its
+oxalic acid. This oxalic acid is supposed to combine with the lime in
+the blood of the gouty person, and to form crystals of oxalate of lime,
+which are eliminated by the kidneys. At the same time the general health
+suffers. "Dr. Prout," writes Dr. Fernie, "says he has seen well-marked
+instances in which an oxalate of lime kidney attack has followed the use
+of garden rhubarb in a tart or pudding, likewise of sorrel in a salad,
+particularly when at the same time the patient has been drinking hard
+water. But chemists explain that oxalates may be excreted in the urine
+without having necessarily been a constituent, as such, of vegetable or
+other foods taken at table, seeing that citric, malic, and other organic
+acids which are found distributed throughout the vegetable world are
+liable to chemical conversion into oxalic acid through a fermentation or
+perverted digestion."
+
+I think the moral of the above is: "Do not drink hard water."
+Especially do not cook fruit and vegetables in hard water. They are
+nearly always rendered indigestible by such a process, and
+"vegetarianism," not the hard water, is often blamed for the sufferings
+of the consumers.
+
+Rhubarb is apt to be over-valued as a "spring medicine" on account of
+its association with the Turkey rhubarb of _materia medica_. It should
+be thoroughly ripe before eating.
+
+I am _not_ recommending Turkey rhubarb.
+
+
+_Sage._
+
+Sage is said to promote longevity, to quicken the senses and memory, and
+to strengthen the nerves.
+
+Sage tea is recommended for pulmonary consumption and for excessive
+perspiration of the feet. A teaspoonful of dried sage, or rather more if
+the fresh leaves be used, is steeped in half a pint of water for
+twenty-four hours. A teacupful is to be taken night and morning.
+
+Sage, like so many of the fragrant herbs, is antiseptic.
+
+
+_Strawberry._
+
+The strawberry is exceptionally wholesome on account of its being so
+easily digested. It is recommended for gout, rheumatism, and the stone.
+Also for anaemic patients on account of the iron it contains.
+
+H. Benjafield, M.B., advises anaemic girls to take 1 quart of
+strawberries per day, and when these are not obtainable several ripe
+bananas.
+
+
+_Spinach._
+
+Professor Bunge declared that iron should never be taken in its mineral
+form, but that those who are in need of an iron tonic should take it as
+it exists in vegetables and fruit. To this end he especially commends
+spinach.
+
+Dr. Luff puts spinach first on a list of vegetables recommended to
+those who suffer from gouty tendencies.
+
+Spinach is very easily digested, and so juicy that no added water is
+needed in which to cook it.
+
+
+_Tomato._
+
+The tomato, according to an American physician, is one of the most
+powerful _deobstruents_ (remover of disease particles, and opener of the
+natural channels of the body) of the _materia medica_. It should be used
+in all affections of the liver, etc., where calomel is indicated.
+
+The superstition that tomatoes are a cause of cancer is absolutely
+without foundation. Vegetarian cancer patients who have recovered after
+being given up as "hopeless" by the orthodox faculty eat tomatoes
+freely. Another belief, strongly supported by some otherwise "advanced"
+scientific men, is that tomatoes are bad for those who suffer from a
+tendency to gout, or uric acid disease. But this has been contradicted
+by others. The evil agency in the tomato is supposed to be the oxalic
+salt which it undoubtedly contains. But it has been shown by experiment
+how certain chemical compounds as obtained from plants act quite
+differently to the same compounds artificially prepared in the
+laboratory. So that the contention of those who assert that the tomato
+is not only harmless, but even beneficial to gouty subjects, is not
+unreasonable. Speaking from experience, I can only say that one of the
+goutiest subjects I know eats tomatoes nearly every day of his life, and
+continues to progress rapidly towards health.
+
+A tomato poultice is said to cleanse foul ulcers, and promote their
+healing. It should be renewed frequently, and applied hot.
+
+
+_Turnip._
+
+Turnips are anti-scorbutic.
+
+An old remedy for chronic coughs was turnip juice boiled with sugar.
+The turnips were grated, the juice pressed out, and 21/2 ozs. candied
+sugar were allowed to 1 pint of juice. This was boiled until it slightly
+thickened. A teaspoonful to be taken several times a day.
+
+The green turnip tops, steamed until tender, are a good "spring
+medicine."
+
+
+_Thyme._
+
+The common garden thyme, used for flavouring, is credited with many
+virtues. It is said to inspire courage and enliven the spirits, and for
+this reason should be taken by melancholy persons. It is good against
+nervous headache, flatulence, and hysterical affections. It is
+antiseptic.
+
+
+_Walnuts._
+
+The walnut has been called vegetable arsenic because of its curative
+value in eczema. An oil obtained from the kernel has been found of great
+service when applied externally in cases of skin diseases. The leaves
+of the walnut tree are also used for the same purpose, both externally
+and internally. One ounce of the leaves to 12 tablespoonfuls of boiling
+water make a tea, half a tea-cup of which may be taken several times a
+day. The affected parts should also be washed with it.
+
+Walnuts, to be well masticated, have been given to gouty and rheumatic
+patients with great success. About one dozen per day is the quantity
+prescribed. It is possible that herein lies the secret of the fact that
+our ancestors invariably took walnuts with their wine.
+
+The green, unripe walnut is useful for expelling worms.
+
+
+_Wheat._
+
+Whole wheat is a perfect food. In the form of white flour, however, it
+is an imperfect, unbalanced food, on account of its deprivation of the
+valuable phosphates which exist in the bran. Rickets and malnutrition
+generally are the outcome of the habitual use of white flour, unless the
+loss of mineral matter is counter balanced by other foods.
+
+Only the very finest wholemeal, such as "Artox," for example, should be
+used for making bread, etc. The ordinary coarse wholemeals are apt to
+produce intestinal irritation.
+
+_Cracked wheat_, soaked overnight in water and boiled for a couple of
+hours, is a favourite prescription of American writers for habitual
+constipation. It may be obtained at most large "Food-Reform" stores.
+
+
+_Bran Tea._
+
+Nervous or anaemic persons will derive great benefit from a course of
+bran tea. It is made as follows:--To every cup of bran allow 2 cups
+distilled water. Well wash the bran in cold water; it is generally full
+of dust. Put in a saucepan with the cold distilled water, cover tightly,
+and boil for thirty minutes. Strain, and flavour with sugar and lemon
+juice to taste. Take a teacupful night and morning.
+
+
+
+
+PART III.--INDICES
+
+
+
+
+INDEX TO DISEASES AND REMEDIES
+
+
+ABSCESS--                                   PAGE
+    Parsley                                   58
+
+ACID DYSPEPSIA--
+    Apple                                     18
+
+ANAEMIA--
+    Banana                                    22
+    Barley                                    23
+    Bran                                      77
+    Lentil                                    27
+    Spinach                                   72
+    Strawberry                                72
+    Water-cress                               31
+
+ASTHMA--
+    Orange                                    57
+
+BLACKHEADS--
+    Lemon                                     46
+
+BOILS--
+    Green Figs                                38
+
+BOWEL IMPACTION--
+    Pine-apple                                63
+
+BRAIN FAG--
+    Apple                                     16
+
+BRONCHITIS--
+    Onion                                     54
+    Radish                                    67
+
+BRUISES--
+    Banana                                    23
+
+BURNS--
+    Beet                                      28
+    Potato                                    66
+
+CANCER--
+    Cinnamon                                  32
+    Lemon                                     46
+    Parsley                                   58
+
+CHEST AFFECTIONS--
+    Almond                                    15
+    Orange                                    57
+
+CHILBLAINS--
+    Lemon                                     46
+    Onion                                     54
+
+CHOLERA--
+    Coffee                                    34
+
+COLDS--
+    Black Currant                             26
+    Elderberry                                36
+
+COLIC--
+    Caraway Seed                              29
+    Onion                                     54
+
+CONSTIPATION--
+    Brazil Nut                                26
+    Cracked Wheat                             77
+    Olive Oil                                 53
+    Onion                                     54
+
+CONSUMPTION--
+    Cabbage, etc.                             28
+    Carrot                                    30
+    Cinnamon                                  33
+    Cresses                                   31
+    Date                                      34
+    Grape                                  2, 40
+    Orange                                    57
+    Pea Nut                                   60
+
+CORNS--
+    Lemon                                     46
+
+COUGHS--
+    Black Currant                             26
+    Elderberry                                36
+    Turnip                                    75
+
+DIARRHOEA--
+    Blackberry                                24
+    Raspberry                                 68
+
+DIPHTHERIA--
+    Lemon                                     46
+    Pine-apple                                60
+
+DYSPEPSIA--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Celery                                    31
+    Pea Nut                                   60
+
+ECZEMA--
+    Lavender                                  44
+    Walnut                                    75
+
+EPILEPSY--
+    Parsley                                   58
+
+EYE, INFLAMMATION OF--
+    Apple                                     18
+
+FEVER--
+    Apple                                     19
+    Barley                                    23
+    Elderberry                                37
+    Grape                                     40
+    Lemon                                     44
+
+FLATULENCE--
+    Thyme                                     75
+
+FRECKLES--
+    Lemon                                     46
+
+GALL STONE--
+    Olive Oil                                 53
+
+GASTRITIS--
+    Banana                                    20
+    Barley                                    23
+
+GOUT--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Carrot                                    30
+    Celery                                    31
+    Grape                                     40
+    Lemon                                     44
+    Potato                                    66
+    Spinach                                   73
+    Strawberry                                72
+    Walnut                                    76
+
+HAEMORRHAGE--
+    Nettle                                    47
+
+HEADACHE--
+    Lavender                                  44
+    Orange                                    57
+    Thyme                                     75
+
+HEART, PALPITATION OF--
+    Asparagus                                 20
+    Lemon                                     46
+
+HYSTERIA--
+    Caraway Seed                              29
+    Orange Pips                               57
+    Thyme                                     75
+
+INDIGESTION--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Celery                                    31
+    Pea Nut                                   60
+
+INEBRIETY--
+    Apple                                     19
+
+INFLAMMATION--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Banana                                    20
+    Barley                                    23
+    Green Gooseberry                          43
+
+INFLUENZA--
+    Cinnamon                                  33
+    Orange                                    56
+
+IRRITABILITY--
+    Prune                                     65
+
+KIDNEY DISEASE--
+    Parsley                                   58
+
+LIVER COMPLAINTS--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Carrot                                    31
+    Grape                                     40
+    Lemon                                     44
+    Red Gooseberry                            43
+    Tomato                                    73
+    White Beet                                28
+
+MALARIA--
+    Grape                                     41
+    Lemon                                     44
+    Orange                                    56
+
+MELANCHOLY--
+    Thyme                                     75
+
+MENSTRUAL OBSTRUCTION--
+    Parsley                                   57
+
+NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA--
+    Celery                                    31
+
+NERVOUS EXCITEMENT--
+    Onion                                     54
+    Sage                                      71
+
+NERVOUS EXHAUSTION--
+    Apple                                     17
+
+NEURALGIA--
+    Seville Orange                            57
+
+PALPITATION OF HEART--
+    Asparagus                                 20
+    Lemon                                     46
+
+PARALYSIS--
+    Lavender                                  44
+
+PERITONITIS--
+    Banana                                    20
+
+PILES--
+    Elderberry                                37
+
+PNEUMONIA--
+    Cinnamon                                  33
+    Orange                                    56
+
+PULMONARY COMPLAINTS--
+    Cabbage, etc.                             28
+    Carrot                                    30
+    Grape                             1 _et seq_
+    Sage                                      71
+
+RHEUMATISM--
+    Asparagus                                 20
+    Cabbage, etc.                             29
+    Celery                                    31
+    Cress                                     31
+    Lemon                                     44
+    Radish                                    67
+    Strawberry                                72
+    Walnut                                    76
+
+RICKETS--
+    Potato                                    66
+
+SCURVY--
+    Cress                                     31
+    Lemon                                     44
+    Potato                                    66
+    Raspberry                                 68
+    Turnip                                    74
+
+SKIN ERUPTIONS--
+    Nettle                                    47
+    Radish                                    67
+
+SLEEPLESSNESS--
+    Lettuce                                   46
+    Onion                                     54
+
+SMALLPOX--
+    Grapes                                    41
+
+SORES--
+    Beet                                      28
+
+SORE THROAT--
+    Apple                                     18
+    Black Currant                             26
+    Pine-apple                                64
+
+SPRAINS--
+    Banana                                    23
+    Caraway Seed                              29
+
+STINGS--
+    Onion                                     54
+
+STONE--
+    Apple                                     17
+    Pear                                      59
+    Radish                                    67
+    Strawberry                                72
+
+TYPHOID FEVER--
+    Banana                                    20
+
+UTERINE DISEASE--
+    Red Beet                                  28
+
+ULCERS--
+    Carrot                                    30
+    Tomato                                    74
+
+VICIOUSNESS--
+    Prune                                     65
+
+WEAK DIGESTION--
+    Chestnut                                  32
+    Grape                                     40
+    Lettuce                                   46
+    Pine Kernal                               64
+    Rice                                      69
+    Strawberry                                72
+
+WHOOPING COUGH--
+    Radish                                    67
+
+WORMS--
+    Carrot                                    30
+    Cocoanut                                  33
+    Olive Oil                                 53
+    Walnut                                    76
+
+
+
+
+INDEX TO PRESCRIPTIONS AND RECIPES
+
+
+Almond Soup                                   15
+Apple Tea                                     19
+Banana and Barley Injection                   21
+Barley Water                                  23
+Blackberry Tea                                25
+Blackberry Jelly                              25
+Black Currant Tea                             26
+Bran Tea                                      77
+Cinnamon Tea                                  33
+Chestnuts, Boiled                             32
+Elderberry Leaf Poultice                      37
+Figs, Steamed                                 39
+Fruit Juice, Preserved                        36
+Lemon Prescription for Malaria                45
+Marmalade Tonic                               57
+Nut Cream                                     50
+Onion Juice                                   55
+Onion Poultice                                55
+Orange Pips, Dried                            57
+Pine-apple Juice                              60
+Potato Lotion                                 67
+Prune Tea                                     65
+Radish Juice                                  68
+Raisin Tea                                    42
+Rice, Boiled                                  69
+Sage Tea                                      71
+Turnip Juice                                  75
+Walnut Leaf Tea                               76
+
+
+
+
+INDEX--MISCELLANEOUS
+
+
+Artistic Faculties, to Strengthen             20
+Cabbage, for Nursing Mothers                  28
+Caraway Seeds, promote Secretion of Milk      29
+Cresses, good for Brain                       31
+Lavender, prevents Flies, Fleas, and Moths    44
+Nuts, true Substitute for Flesh Meat          47
+Nut Butter Machine                            49
+Olive Oil, Tests for Purity of                52
+Pulse, not Indigestible                       27
+Tomato, not bad for Cancer or Gout            73
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ADVERTISEMENTS
+
+
++A WORD ABOUT THE ADVERTISEMENTS.+
+
+Readers of the Healthy Life Booklets will doubtless be glad to know that
+only those advertisements of foods that can be conscientiously
+recommended are accepted. This necessarily limits the number of
+advertisements, but has the advantage of making them really serviceable.
+
+The publisher has no pecuniary interest in any of the firms mentioned,
+and therefore feels quite free to give his testimony to the worth of
+their goods.
+
+
++"Artox" Flour.+
+
+This is so finely ground that, although wholemeal, it may be used in the
+manufacture even of sponge cake, while for bread it is unsurpassable.
+
+
++Digestive Tea.+
+
+Tea-drinking is considered to be very injurious, but the habit is
+difficult, apparently impossible, for some people to overcome, and
+therefore the Universal Digestive Tea supplies a real need. A tea minus
+tannin is a boon to everyone, but especially to the sufferers from
+dyspepsia and nervous complaints.
+
+
++Fry's Cocoa.+
+
+This cocoa has stood the test of time and chemists for so long now as
+hardly to need further testimony as to its genuineness.
+
+
++International Health Association.+
+
+They supply thoroughly pure foods, and readers will do well to take
+advantage of their offer to send samples to test for themselves.
+
+
++Mapleton's Nut Foods.+
+
+Their Nutter is quite the best vegetable cooking fat on the market, and
+makes excellent pastry. A pie-crust made of Nutter and "Artox" Flour is
+a revelation to the uninitiated. The Nut Butters are also very good,
+especially the uncoloured varieties labelled "Wallaceite."
+
+
++Shearns.+
+
+Mr. Shearn is the acknowledged "Fruit King" of the Food Reform movement.
+The grand fruit shop in Tottenham Court Road, to which is now added a
+vegetarian restaurant, is familiar to most Food Reformers who live in or
+near London. Others will be glad to know of Shearn's Stores where all
+the latest "Food Reform" specialities are stocked. A catalogue can be
+obtained on application.
+
+
++Wallace Bakery.+
+
+This is the only bakery in existence which supplies bread, cakes, etc.,
+made with very fine wholemeal flour, and entirely free from yeast and
+chemicals. The Wallace Bakery is a boon and a blessing to Physical
+Regenerationists.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++A HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLET FREE+
+
+It has many valuable recipes for Food Reformers and Invalids, and tells
+all about
+
++"ARTOX" WHOLE MEAL,+
+
+which is made from the finest whole wheat, and is so finely ground by
+old-fashioned stone mills that it can be digested by the most delicate.
+It makes the most delicious Bread, Cakes, Biscuits, and Pastry, and is
+an entire safeguard against Constipation when used regularly in place of
+white flour. It is strongly recommended by _The Lancet_ and by Mrs.
+Leigh Hunt Wallace (_Herald of Health_) and is used exclusively in the
+Wallace Bakery. Sold by Health Stores and Grocers everywhere in 7 lb.
+sealed linen bags, or 28 lbs. sent direct for 4s. 6d. carriage paid.
+_Important._--"Artox" Wholemeal is only retailed in our sealed bags, and
+is _not_ sold loose.
+
++APPLEYARDS, LTD.+ (Dept. M.)
+
+Millers, ROTHERHAM.
+
+_Mention Healthy Life Booklets._
+
+[Illustration: Grains of Common Sense for Housewife and Epicure.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++WILL YOU TRY A CUP OF TEA+
+
+that, instead of injuring your nerves and toughening your food, is
+
++Absolutely Safe and Delightful?+
+
+2s. 2d.; 2s. 10d.; and 3s. 6d. per lb.
+
++THE UNIVERSAL DIGESTIVE TEA+ is ordinary Tea treated with oxygen, which
+neutralises the injurious tannin. Every pound of ordinary tea contains
+about two ounces of tannin. Tannin is a powerful astringent subject to
+tan skins into leather. The tannin in ordinary tea tans, or hardens, the
+lining of the digestive organs, also the food eaten. This prevents the
+healthful nourishment of the body, and undoubtedly eventuates in nervous
+disorders.
+
+On receipt of a post card the UNIVERSAL DIGESTIVE TEA CO., Ltd.,
+Colonial Warehouse, Kendal, will send a sample of this Tea and name of
+nearest Agent, also a Descriptive Pamphlet compiled by Albert Broadbent,
+Author of "Science in the Daily Meal," &c. Where no agent, 1 lb. and
+upwards will be sent post free.
+
+_AGENTS WANTED._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++Ideal Foods for Every Day.+
+
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+
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+
+They are ideal foods for every day because they furnish a wide variety
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+
+The I.H.A. Health Foods are sold by all Health Food Stores, or direct on
+easy terms.
+
+We offer to send you three liberal samples and a beautifully illustrated
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+stamps, or price list post free on application.
+
+The International Health Association
+
+Limited.
+
+The Factory in the Beech Woods,
+
+Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts.
+
+_Please write for "Food Remedies."_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++A Word about Nut Foods.+
+
+The high value of Nuts has long been known, but until lately no attempt
+has been made to manufacture them in a form available for domestic use.
+This, however, is now changed, as a splendid variety of excellent
+preparations are ready to hand, owing to the enterprise of +Messrs.
+Mapleton+, in the shape of such useful products as +Nutter+ and +Nutter
+Suet+, which supersedes Lard, Suet, and Cooking Butter in the kitchen.
+Also delicious Table Butters--+Walnut+, +Cocoanut+, and +Cashew+--all of
+which are four times as nutritious as Dairy Butter. Other goods are +Nut
+Meat, Nut Gravy, Nut Biscuits, Nut Cakes, Fruitarian Cakes,+ &c. A Post
+Card will bring a Booklet describing these goods, with Recipes for their
+use, on application to
+
+THE MANUFACTURERS:
+
+Mapleton's Nut Food Co., Ltd.
+
+LANCASHIRE
+
+MENTION HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLETS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++A GUIDE TO GOOD THINGS.+
+
+There are thousands of folk all over the country who are beginning to
+feel vaguely that their usual diet is not all it should be, and that it
+tends to produce discomfort and disease. Many of them would be glad to
+make a change if they knew how. Our booklet, "A Guide to Good Things,"
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+
+There are also several pages of delightful recipes that will help to
+gladden the table of any housewife in the kingdom, and in addition there
+is a complete price list of every health food upon the market that can
+be recommended, and of the most up-to-date and novel appliances for
+cooking and preparing food.
+
+There is an all but endless array of breakfast foods--bread, cakes,
+biscuits, etc., etc., that are not only beneficial because of what they
+contain, but are free from the injurious chemical adulterants so largely
+used nowadays.
+
+But send for our booklet and see for yourself what it contains, or if
+you are near give us a call. You may shop, lunch, dine, and take tea
+with us. Our Health Food Stores will supply everything you need for a
+perfect health diet. Our Fruit Stores will supply you with the choicest
+fruit on the most moderate terms, and in large quantities at wholesale
+prices. Our Fruit Luncheon Rooms are the talk of London, and you can get
+a delightful fruit meal amid flowers and palms from 6d.
+
+If you cannot call, send six penny stamps, and in return we will send
+you, together with the booklet, a sample of our Frunut, reg. (a
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+sustaining); samples of Stamanut Wholemeal Biscuits (a valuable and most
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+of our Special Pale Roasted Coffee. The whole post free for 6d.
+
+You will be delighted with it all.
+
+Write to-day to B. Shearn & Son, 234, Tottenham Court Road, London, W.
+
+Mention this book.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
++A Bakery based on Principle.+
+
+When so many manufactured foods are more or less adulterated--even such
+everyday articles as Bread and Biscuits being no exceptions--it is good
+news to know that Delicious Biscuits, Bread, Cakes, &c., can be obtained
+which are guaranteed, and proved by frequent analysis to be, absolutely
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+
++The WALLACE P.R. FOODS Co.,+
+
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+
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+
+The experience of thousands proves that the daily use of "WALLACEITE"
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+body and keep it in working order as do no other foods.
+
+They can be obtained from all Health Food Stores.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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