DO YOU LIKE GERM-KILLERS?

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 31, 16 April 1907, Page 2

DO YOU LIKE GERM-KILLERS?

Here is something to think about next time you eat an apple or oraiiL'-o An eminent bacteriologist has shown that the acids of lentous, apples, and other fruits—citric acid, malic acid—are capable of destroying all kinds of disease germs. Cholera germs are killed in fifteen minutes by lemon juice or apple juice, and typhod fever germs • are killed in half an hour by these acids, even when considerably diluted. If you squeeze a lemon into a glass of water containing cholera germs, and let it stand fifteen or twenty ininulen you may drink the. water with impunity, as the germs will be dead ; these "juices will kill all other disease germs. ]n ordinary cases of biliousness, sick headache, and nervous headache, a fruit diet is a wonderful purifier.