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almond meal or walnut meal and raisins. The prophet of old who did his 
forty days’ walk on a handful of parched corn and a barley loaf and a cake 
of figs and a cluster of raisins was a scientific dietist ; and the Japanese, 
who followed these lines, proved themselves better commissariat officers 
than the Americans, who fed their soldiers in Cuba on the best Chicago 
“mysteries.” 
Lastly The Salines. — I can hardly over-estimate the importance of 
the salines in the human economy. Nerves could not work, teeth could 
not grow, blood could not circulate, dialysis in digestion and absorption 
would be impossible without them ; and where doyougetthe salinesfrom? 
The world of fruits. Phosphates of lime in the bones, alkaline phosphates in 
the blood, muscle and milk, constantly being excreted and fresh salines 
constantly being demanded, the fruits become an essential of the human 
economy. 
Time will not allow me to deal with the other heads that I laid befo.-e 
me — viz. to show the value of fruits as digestants and as preventors of old 
age by being assistant excretants, and as being actually curative in many 
forms of disease. 
Let me therefore be satisfied to say that in my opinion — 
First, Englishmen could live in better health and with greater freedom 
from disease if it were necessary to do so upon fruits and nuts produced in 
England alone (including the fruits of grasses—^, cereals and legumes — 
under this title) 
Secondly, fresh ripe fruits may be used by young and old alike during the 
summer, but that juicy fruits should be eaten with a fatty addition — e.g. straw- 
berries and cream, and they should not be used largely in cold weather. 
Thirdly, sweet dried fruits may be eaten all the year round, and should 
be eaten with nut meal. 
Fourthly, raisins stand at the head of all fruits, and if soaked for 
twelve to twenty-four hours before being eaten are the finest of fruits for 
cuiing anaemia and debility, and for supporting the needs of the body in 
old age as well as in youth. 
Fifthly, tomatoes, walnuts, nut butters, peanuts, malted peanuts, are 
rich 111 proteids, and produce most meaty dishes when wisely prepared. 
Sixthly, apples and grapes should be in every house in the land all the 
year round, and when they cannot be obtained raisins should be used so 
that every adult eats four pounds of apples or grapes or one pound of 
raisins per week. 
Seventhly, nuts are far too little known, but are of immense importance. 
The newer pine kernals and butter nuts are readily digestible, while most 
of the other nuts can b; used if put through a nut mill, and the remainder 
can be eaten by nearly everybody if used in their malted form ; while the 
nut butters should replace all the other animal fats for those who love 
daintiness and purity from disease. 
Eighthly, fruits and nuts may be taken at any time of the day if due care 
be taken in mastication, but if taken with cereals they are better taken 
early in the day rather than at night. 
Ninthly, the best adjuncts to fruit are cream, clotted cream, curds and 
whey, milk puddings, fresh cheese, cream cheese, and honey. 
Tenthly, by the right use of a wisely selected fruit diet a large number 
of diseases which are caused by excess of proteid waste (e.g. gout, headache, 
constipation, debility) can be cured. 
Eleventhly, by the right use of fruit juices and fruit salines the deposits 
which are the cause of old age can be reabsorbed, and youth and activity 
be perpetuated much longer. 
Twelfthly and lastly, I believe in the old adage, only in a much more 
amplified form, that “ an apple a day keeps the doctor away," and that it 
would be to the permanent welfare of England to grow more apples and 
breed fewer doctors. 
