FRUIT JUICE AND DISEASE.
It is a mtter of common knowledge that fruit juices exert a most beneficial effect in the treatment of scurvy and similar ailments, and their action on tlie typhoid bacillus and the colon bacillus, which are tho cause of many forms* of acute intestinal and other diseases, has been studied on a considerable scale by Dr. Reynolds, Health Commissioner of Chicago. He finds that the jnices of ■ different species of lemons vary very materially in germicidal effect, that from some specimens requiring as much aa 10 per cent, to kill all the exposed germs. Lime juice, apple juice and grape juice ail have a more or less inhibiting effect, but the bottled grape juice sold at grocery stores gave the most conclusive results. Distilled and tap water were infected with the bacteria, and bottled grape juice added in proportions varying from. 1 to 5 per cent.; examination showed that some brands had killed the germs at the end of the first minute, as did also the lemon juice of a proper strength. Strangely enough, the freshly extracted juice, of the grape, prepared in the laboratory, had no effect even in a proportion of 100 per cent.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11580, 11 May 1903, Page 7
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FRUIT JUICE AND DISEASE.
Press, Volume LX, Issue 11580, 11 May 1903, Page 7
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