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the doctors have so patiently endured the taunt 

 about apples keeping them away because they 

 knew that apples were their best business 

 friends? 



THE FRUIT CURE 



Linnaeus, to be sure, cured his gout by means 

 of the "cherry cure," and thousands have been 

 restored to health by means of the "grape 

 cure" popular in European countries for genera- 

 tions. Many physicians employ the fruit cure 

 with excellent results, and at Battle Creek the 

 "fruit regimen' * is scientifically employed to 

 cure the very evils which Doctor Porter attrib- 

 utes to fruit eating. He declares that fruit acid 

 taken with other foods interferes with digestion, 

 but the world's leading authority on the diges- 

 tion of food, Professor Pavlov of Petrograd, has 

 demonstrated by actual experiments that the 

 acids of fruits stimulate the stomach to produce 

 gastric acid and that these acids are able to a 

 considerable degree to take the place of the 

 natural acid of the stomach when this is 

 absent. 



Dr. J. H. Kellogg disagrees with the old 

 maxim that fruit is gold in the morning, silver 

 at noon, and lead at night; it is "golden all the 

 time," he declares, and no one in this country is 

 better posted than he on what goes on chem- 

 ically in the alimentary canal. "Eat fruit 

 freely every day, before breakfast and before 

 dinner, and especially let your dietary include 



