Tomatoes as a Medicine.
Dr. T. H. Hopkins says that tomatoes are in no sense me-iiainsl. If they were, they never she uld be used as an article o£ common diet. So far as effecting the human organism i 5 concerned, they act precisely like any other commonly used fruit; that is, merely as agreeable nutrients. Their nutritive power, compared with meats and seede, is very slight ; Safe it is wall adapted to the warm seasons cf the year, when a light diet U best fcr gll, except those engaged in arduous m&&4*l toil.
The notion that tomatoes are medicinal, arises from the faai that they belong to an expensive family of plants in the foliage, seeds or roots of some of whioh medicinal principles are found. Bus the potato, the egg plant, and a few. others more or less used for food, belong to tho same large family. There is a poisonous principle in the leaf of the peach trea, bat it is not found in the frait. Sd Kith the tomato, and it^is a great pity that this notion Bhould have got abroad. _ That tomatoes disagree with some people 13 no evidence of medical aotion. Stra^rbesxies do the same.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1672, 8 March 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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