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in the world are given in all sorts of compounds. Let the man of 

 drugs go aboard that ship in mid ocean, with its crew suffering 

 from all these ailments ; let the man with his artificially made 

 fruit salts have his trial at their bowels and liver ; let the man of 

 mercury and podophyllum, and all the so-called liver doctors try 

 their best ; call in the tribes of tonics, and give iron, quinine, 

 arsenic, strychnia, and all the rest of the family ; then try your 

 stomachics for his digestion, but in spite of all these the scurvy 

 fiend will sit aloft and laugh you to scorn. In fact, all these drugs 

 have been tried over and over again, and Dr. Buzzard, perhaps the 

 greatest authority in the world, tells us they have all proved 

 miserable failures. But bring in your fruit and the whole scene 

 changes. Can not we show the world that what is applicable to 

 these men in their extreme condition is more or less applicable to 

 the millions of sufferers on land who now persist in looking upon 

 fruit as a thing they can very well do without ? Dr. Buzzard 

 advises the scorbutic to take fruit morning, noon, and night. 

 " Fresh lemon juice in the form of lemonade is to be his ordinary 

 drink ; the existence of diarrhoea should be no reason for with- 

 holding it. Give oranges, lemons, apples, potatoes, cabbage, 

 salads," and if this advice is good for those aboard, and there is 

 no doubt about that, it is equally good for the millions who are 

 spending millions annually in drugs which will never cure them. 

 The first symptoms of scurvy are a change in the color of the 

 skin, which becomes sallow or of a greenish tint. Then follows 

 an aversion for all exercise. Bloodshot eyes, weak heart, bad 

 digestion, and constipation follow on. Dr. Ballard says many of 

 the most serious and fatal cases of scurvy he has seen have only 

 presented as symptoms the pallid face, general listlessness, and 

 bloodshot eyes. If we go through the back streets of our large 

 towns how many pallid faced, listless-looking people and children 

 swarm around us, and they have, as a rule, plenty of food ! 

 "Within the last few weeks two of my own children have given 

 me a good example of what fruit will do. Two months ago I 

 decided to let these two boys, aged six and eight, go to my farm 

 among the apple-packers. They were not actually ill when 

 they went out, neither had they been at all shut up, but they were 

 pale-looking, would not eat their food, etc. During the last two 

 months they make their boast they eat a dozen apples a day each, 

 and as soon as they began eating these apples their appetite for 

 other foods about doubled, and during the eight weeks they have 

 grown stout and robust, skin clear and healthy, with the glow of 

 health on their cheeks, and bodily strength equal to any amount 

 of exertion. 



As a medicine, I look upon fruit as a most valuable ally. As 

 previously shown, when the body is in that breaking- up condition 



