GERM KILLING POWER OF FRUITS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 23 March 1907, Page 3

GERM KILLING POWER OF FRUITS.

An eminent Japanese bacteriologist bas shown that the acids of lemons, apples and other fruits citric acid, malic acid —are capabable of destroying all kinas of disease germs. Cholera germs are killed in fifteen minutes by lemon juice or apple juice, and typhoid fever germs are killed in half an hour by these acids, even when considered diltued. If you squeeze a lemon into a glass of water com taining cholera germs, and let it stand fifteen or twenty minutes you may drink the water with impunity, as the germs will be dead ; these juices will kill other disease germs. Instead of telling a man to have his stomach washed out, we can now tell him to drink orange juice, which will cleanse the stomach as thoroughly as a stomach tube, providing it be not a case of stomach catarrh. If we have to deal with a stomach complaint, in which there is a large amount of tenacious mucus adhering to the walls of the stomach, a stomach tube to dislodge it is required, but in ordinary cases of biliousness, foul tongue, bad breath sick headache, and nervous headache, a fruit diet is a wonderful purifier.