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BANANA AS DIET IN TYPHOID CASES. 



An American Doctor (Dr. Usery, of St. Louis), says the Liverpool 

 Journal of Commerce, has lately confirmed the previously stated belief 

 accepted in some medical quarters, in the value of the banana as a 

 food for typhoid patients. During the progress of this malady, the 

 use of solid food owing to the thinness of parts of the intestinal walls, 

 is attended with danger ; but it is asserted thit the banana is both 

 safe and beneficial, the stomach pnctically absorbing the fruit owing 

 to its nature. It contains only about 5 per cent, waste matter, 95 per 

 cent, possessing nutritive properties. 



ADDITIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 

 DEPARTMENT. 



Library (Serials). 

 Europe. 



British Isles. 



Board of Agri., England, Leaflets 68 and 69. [Secty.] 

 Botanical Magazine, Aug. [Purchased,] 

 Chemist and Druggist, July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17. [Editor.] 

 Garden, Aug. 3. 10, 17. [Purchased.] 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, Aug. 10, 17. [Purchased,] 

 International Sugar Journal, Aug . [Editor.] 

 Journal of Botany, Aug. [Purchased,] 

 Nature, July 25. Aug. 1, 8, 15. [Purchased.] 

 Pharmaceutical Journal, July 27, Aug 3, 10. 17. 

 Foreign Oftice Reports Annual Series Juue, July, 1901. ") 

 Foreign Oiiice Reports (Miscellaneous Series) June- July. 1901. [ p , q-.j.- 

 Colonial Reports— Annual-Nos. 322-325. 1901. p 01 ' &eCty * 



« " Miscellaneous No. 16. J 



France. 



Sucrerie indigene et coloniale, July 30. Aug. 6, 13, 20. [Editor.] 

 Annales de '1 Institute Colonial de Marseille, Vol. VII. [Prof. E, Heckel.] 

 Fasc. 1, Le Tabac by Dr. L. Laurent. 



Faso. 2, Contribution a l'histoire naturelle de quelqies Gryllidae... 

 qui cause des ravages dans les plantations decaff ..by Dr. Bordas. 



Germany. 



Trope npflanzer. Aug. [Editor.] 



IE 1 



Switzerland 



Bulletin de L' Herbier Boissier No. 8. [Conservateur.] 



Asia. 



In gI ia 



Planting Opinion, July 6, 13, 20, 27. [Editor.] 



Proc. Agri. and Hort. Soc. of India, Jany., March, 1901. [Secretary.] 

 Ceylon 



Times of Ceylon. July 11, 18, 25. Aug. 1. [Editor.] 



Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. June. [Director.] 



