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APPLES
Virtues of the Apple
JHie «pple is such a common fruit that very few persons are familiar with its remarkably efficacious medicinal properties. Everybody ought to know that the very best thing they can do is to eat apples just before retiring for the night. Persons uninitiated in the mysteries of the fruit are liable to throw up their hands in horror at the visions of dyspepsia which such a suggestion may summon up; but no harm can come to even a delicate system by the eating of ripe and juicy apples just before going to bed. The apple is excellent brain food, because it has more phosphoric acid in easily digested shape than other fruits. It excites the action of the liver, promotes sound and healthy sleep and thoroughly disinfects the mouth. This is not all. The apple helps the kidney secretions and prevents calculous growths, while it obviates indigestion and is one of the best-known preventives of disrates of the throat. Everybody should be familiar with such knowledge. (From the Detroit Bulletin of Pharmacy, year undetermined, maybe 1889 or 90, but very old from the look of the type and yellowed paper. This was sent us by Mrs. Helen Bridges of Washington who discovered it in papers of her 90-year-old aunt, whose father was a dentistJ
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