IS CABBAGE HEALTHY?

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11690, 17 September 1903, Page 7

IS CABBAGE HEALTHY?

(to the editor.)

Sir,—l wonder if any of your readers can throw light on this subject? In a recent Medical Review I read that boiled cabbage was twice as hard to digest as raw • cabbage—and I should like to hear the practical experience of those who have digestions delicate enough to compare the t\vo. ' Personally, I am' not so fond of cabbage salad as of boiled cabbage, and I hate to give up my favourite vegetable for gastric reasons. According to my own theory (and, for a layman, I have had a good deal of medical experience) a man's digestion depends entirely upon his bloodeupply. .The stomach, I understand, is lined with a mesh of vessels filled with blood. This blood stimulates the flow of gastrio juices, and then soaks up, so to speak, the nourishing elements in the food. When the. blood is well laden with this crude nourishment, it goes to the liver to be refined. From thero, if this troubleBome organ is in good order, tho clarified blood, with its rich load, is sent racing through tho veins to carry new life and strength to every corner of tho body. But, of course, if 'Ae blood is weak or impure, tt man's stomach and liver both break down —and he can't digest cabbage either raw or cooked. That was the case with a friend of mine, Mr W. R. Taylor, David street, Lyttelton, Canterbury. He, however, took Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people at once, because they actually mako new blood—and he knew that his digestion would never be right till lio made his blood pure and rich and red. Before that, Mr Taylor was a martyr to stomach trouble. He was doubled up after each meal with burning, cramping pains in the stomach.- He starved himself rather than face the torture, and soon grew piteously thin and weak. He bad to give up cabbage and all other dishes that he liked most, and even then bad terrible at tacks of biliousness. - He consulted the best doctors and tried all tho so-called cures, but none of them did him any good, simply liecause they did not, go to the root of the trouble in'tho blood. At. .last Mr Taylor read in the '"Lyttelton Times," or Christchurch ''Press" that Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people had cured cases of indigestion, biliousness, and general weakness far worse than his. He got some, and four boxes cured him absolutely. They gave him such a rich supply of pure red healthy Wood that his stomach and liver were strengthened for their work, every sign of bad digestion vanished. Now he has a capital appetite and no man enjoys a good meal more. ' As Mr Taylor told me these facts with his own lips- I can vouch for their truth. Perhaps if others would follow his simple example, they would soon be free from all fear of boiled cabbage or oilier articles of doubtful digestibility. As an old subscriber, I remain, sir. yours, etc., 6 A LOVER OF CABBAGE.