CELERY AND RHEUMATISM.
A correspondent to the New York Times says : “ New discoveries—or what claim to be discoveries—of the healing virtues of plants are continually making. ‘ One of the latest is that celery is a cure for rheumatism indeed it is asserted that the disease is impossible if the vegetable be cooked and freely eaten. The . fact that it is always put on the table raw prevents its therapeutic powers from becoming known. The celeiy should bo cut into bits, boiled in water until soft, and the water drank by the patient. Put new milk, with a little flour and nutmeg, into a saucepan with the boiled celery, serve it warm with pieces of toast, cat it with potatoes, and the painful ailment will soon yield. Such, is the declaration of a physician who has again and again tried the same experiment, and with unform sncess. He adds that cold and damp never produce, but develop, the disease of which acid blood is the primary and sustaining cause, and while the blood is alkaline there can bo neither rheumatism nor gout.”
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Patea Mail, 11 August 1882, Page 4
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