DO YOU LIKE GERM-KILLERS?

North Otago Times, 1 November 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

DO YOU LIKE GERM-KILLERS?

Here is something to think about next time .yon eat tin apple or orange An eminent bacteriologist has shown that the acids of lemons, apples, and other fruits-citric acid, malic acid—are capable of destroying nil kinds of disease germs. Cholera germs are killed in fifteen minutes by lemon juice or apple juice, and lyphod fever germs are killed in lialf an hour by these acids, even when considerably diluted. If you squeeze a lemon into a glass of water containing cholera germs, and let it stand fifteen or twenty minutes you may drink the water with impunity, as the germs will be dead ; these juices will kill all other disease germs. In ordinary cases of biliousness, sick headache, and nervous headache, a fruit diet is a wonderful purifier.