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the syrup whilst boiling. Some sliced apple, or quince, may be 
added to the grapes ; for every pound of the same, one pound 
again of sugar; also some orange peel cut up may be introduced. 
Boil rather quickly at first. Take out some of the jam, and put 
it in a shallow saucer to cool. so as to see if it will jelly properly. 
It is well worthy of remark with respect to grape juice, that 
whilst it exercises when freshly obtained an inhibiting effect, 
more or less, in typhoid fever on the growth and vitality of the 
typhoid bacillus, as likewise on the colon bacilli which are the 
cause of many forms of acute intestinal ailments, yet the bottled 
grape juice found in grocery stores gives the most conclusive 
experimental results. It should be observed, there is a marked 
difference between the brands of this bottled grape juice. Ex- 
perimentally certain brands have been found to kill the bacilli 
by the end of a minute, such effect being almost instantaneous. 
Moreover the quantity of grape juice required for securing this 
vital object does not disturb the digestion, as lemon juice (also 
destructive to the bacilli) might do. It was found that the 
recently expressed grape juice, prepared in the laboratory, had 
no effect on the bacilli, even in the proportion as high as 100 
per cent. American physicians declare that unfermented grape 
juice, not artificially preserved by mischievous salicylic acid, 
etc., is a grand food for the sick, particularly in fever cases. 
Dr. Foster, of Chicago, reported in the Medical Era, 1886, “‘ grape 
juice has done me this one inestimable service : it has given me 
a food, the only food, which little ones when endangered by wasting 
and febrile diseases, can, or will take, whilst the temperature 
remains high, and the pulse quick.” ‘* When I had found a food 
of which a boy four years old would drink one and a half pints 
daily, and ask for more, while he would absolutely refuse all 
other food, I had discovered a means whereby his strength could 
be maintained throughout ten days during a raging scarlet 
fever, and that food saved my little patient’s life.” Still more 
important has this advice become to-day. Grape juice (easily 
sterilized by a simple, harmless process) is highly beneficial in 
all forms of low wasting diseuse. 
Grapes are sometimes employed systematically as a means of 
cure for continued diarrheea : the grape sugar is partly absorbed 
into the system unchanged, and whilst rich in silicates, phos- 
phates, tartrates, and pectin. The skins afford some aromatic 
ethereal oils, and the stones a good deal of tannin; the grape 
