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Passaic City Record
Passaic, Passaic County, New Jersey
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General health advice on blood temperature in health and fevers, the role of fruits and vegetables in cooling effects and preventing scurvy, and the use of citrates in serious cases.
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blood is constant, and even when spots
and rashes appear on the skin, there
is no departure from the normal tem-
perature unless there is a cause for
fever, such as blood-poisoning, the in-
vasion of some microbe or serious dis-
turbance of the nervous system. In
fevers, when the temperature of the
blood is raised, vegetables are never
given, as they would not cool the blood
but might help to heat it.
Some fruits have cooling properties,
as they contain citric acid, and this
forms citrates in the blood and in-
creases the perspiration. In serious
fevers, however, it is much safer to
give measured quantities of citrates
to produce this effect than to trust to
the uncertain action of fruit.
Fruit and fresh vegetables are anti-
scorbutics-that is to say, they are op-
posed to scurvy. The primary cause of
this disease is not clearly understood,
but it is immediately due to an absence
of these wholesome constituents from
the diet. The flushing of the skin,
with spots and rashes, popularly called
"heating of the blood," is relieved and
effete matter is eliminated by their
use. Hence the popular phrase that
"they cool the blood."
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In health the temperature of the blood is constant, and even when spots and rashes appear on the skin, there is no departure from the normal temperature unless there is a cause for fever, such as blood-poisoning, the invasion of some microbe or serious disturbance of the nervous system. In fevers, when the temperature of the blood is raised, vegetables are never given, as they would not cool the blood but might help to heat it. Some fruits have cooling properties, as they contain citric acid, and this forms citrates in the blood and increases the perspiration. In serious fevers, however, it is much safer to give measured quantities of citrates to produce this effect than to trust to the uncertain action of fruit. Fruit and fresh vegetables are antiscorbutics-that is to say, they are opposed to scurvy. The primary cause of this disease is not clearly understood, but it is immediately due to an absence of these wholesome constituents from the diet. The flushing of the skin, with spots and rashes, popularly called "heating of the blood," is relieved and effete matter is eliminated by their use. Hence the popular phrase that "they cool the blood."