GOLDEN SPECIFIC OF THE HESPERIDES.

Lake County Press, Issue 1067, 4 June 1903, Page 7

GOLDEN SPECIFIC OF THE HESPERIDES.

Professor Koch and others, have shown that the acids of lemons, apples, and other fruits—citric acid, malic acid and so on—are capable of destroying all kinds of disease germs Cholera germs are killed in 15 minutes by lemon juice or apple juice, and typhoid fever germs are killed in half an hour by these acids, even if considerably diluted. If j'ou squeeze a lemon into a glass of water containing cholera germs and let it stand 15 or 20 minutes, you may drink the water with impunity as the germs will be dead ; these juices will almost equally quickly kill other disease germs. Instead of telling a man to have his stomach wascd out, we can now tell him to drink orange juice, which will cleanse the stomach as thoroughly as a stomach-tube, provided it is not a case of gastric catarrh, in which there is a large amount of tenacious mucus adhering to the walls of the stomach. In ordinary cases of biliousness, foul tongue, bad breath, sick-headache, and nervous headache, a fruit diet is a wonderful purifier. The fruit diet will cleanse the stomach and the alimentary canal, and drive off the disease germs, which arc responsible for a large share of our ailments.