IS CABBAGE HEALTHY

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8288, 17 September 1903, Page 4

IS CABBAGE HEALTHY

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —I 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 two. Personally, I am not so fond of Cabbage salad as of boiled Cabbage, and I hate to give up my favorite 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 iiis 'blood-supply. The stomach, I understand, is lined with a mesh of vessels filled with blood. This blood stimulates the flow of gastric 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 there, if this troublesome organ is.in good order, and clarified blood, with its rich load, is sent racing through the veins to carry new life and strength to every corner of the body. But, of course, if the blood I is weak or impure, a man's stomach and liver both break down —and he can't digest Cabbage either raw That is the case with a friend of mine, Mr W. It. Taylor, David St., Lyttelton, Canterbury. He, however, took Dr Williams' pink pills for pale people at-once, because they actually made new blood— knew that his digestion would. neveE be right till lie made his blood pure and lich and red, Before that Mr Taylor was martyr to stomach, trouble. He was doubled_ up aftereach. meal with burning, cramping pains in the stomach.. He starved himself rather than face the torture, and soon grew piteously ■thin and weak. He had to give up Cabbage aji<i all other dishes that he liked most, and even then had terrible attacks of biliousness. He ' consulted the .best" doctors and tried all the so-called cures but none of them did him any good, simply because they did not so to the root of the trouble in the blood. At last Mr Taylor read in the Lyt-:

telton Time 3, OE CtrisixiliuTcli Preiss that Dr Williams' .pink.pilla for.,,pale _ people. liad cured oases 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 blood that" Ms stomach and liver were strengthened, for their .work and 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 fact with his own lips I can vouch for their truth. Perhaps if other would follow his simple example, they would soon be free from all fear of boiled Cabbage or other articles of doubtful digestibility. As an old subscriber, I 1 remain, Sir, I Tours, etc., A LOVER OF CABBAGE