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her gives the name of the author of the information that he is passing on. With every desire to fulfil the rabbinical precept and acknowledge the sources of this booklet, I find myself in a quandary. If I make my acknowledgments duly I must begin with my grandmother and Culpeper's Herbal. Following upon those come the results of my own and friends' practical experience. After this I should, perhaps, give a list of the periodicals from whose pages I have culled much helpful information. But as space and memory preclude individual mention I must content myself with this general acknowledgment. Lastly, I desire to record my thanks to Dr. Fernie, whose Meals Medicinal, a large and exhaustive collection of facts about food, has afforded not the least valuable assistance. F. D.
CONTENTS
PART 1.--INTRODUCTORY PAGE While there is Fruit there is Hope 1 Fruit and the Teeth 5 Fruit is Food 6 Objections to Fruit 8 A Pioneer of Food Remedies 10 The Simple Life 12 Fruit or Fasting 13 Acute Illness 14
PART II.--FOODS AND THEIR
MEDICINAL USES
Almond 15 Apple 16 Asparagus 20 Banana 20 Barley 23 Blackberry 24 Black Currant 26 Brazil Nuts 26 Beans, Peas, and Lentils 27 Beet 28 Cabbage 28 Caraway Seed 29 Carrot 30 Celery 31 Cresses 31 Chestnut 32 Cinnamon 32 Cocoanut 33 Coffee 33 Date 34 Elderberry 34 Fig 38 Grape 39 Gooseberry 43 Lavender 43 Lemon 44 Lettuce 46 Nettle 47 Nuts 47 Oat 51 Olive 52 Onion 53 Orange 56 Parsley 57 Pear 58 Pea Nut 59 Pine-Apple 60 Pine Kernel 64 Plum, Prune 64 Potatoe 66 Radish 67 Raspberry 68 Rice 68 Rhubarb 69 Sage 71 Strawberry 72 Spinach 72 Tomato 73 Turnip 74 Thyme 75 Walnut 75 Wheat 76
PART III.--INDICES
Index to Diseases and Remedies 79 Index