Kentucky Gazette

From the Baltimore American.

The annexed article, copied from one of the interior papers by the last mail, attributes virtues to the tomato which will probably cause that delightful vegetable to be more generally used even than it is at present.

The Tomato.—Dr. Bennett, the Professor of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children, Hygiene and Acclimatement, in the Medical College of Lake Erie, which is the Medical Department of the Willoughby University of Lake Erie, at Chagrin, Cuyahoga co., Ohio, in his public introductory lecture recently delivered in that flourishing institution, made the following statement relative to the Solanum Lycopersicum, or as it is generally called, Tomato, Love Apple, Jerusalem Apple, etc. to-wit:

1st. That it (the Tomato) is one of the most powerful deobstruents of the Materia Medica, and that in all those affections of the liver, and other organs where calomel is indicated, it is probably the most effective and least harmful remedial agent known to the profession,

2d. That a chemical extract will probably soon be obtained from it which will altogether supersede the use of Calomel in the cure of disease.

3d. That he has successfully treated serious diarrhoea with this article alone.

4th. That when used as an article of diet it is almost a sovereign remedy for dyspepsia or indigestion.

5th. That persons removing from the East or North, to the West or South, should by all means, make use of it as an aliment, as it would, in that event, save them from the danger attendant upon those violent bilious attacks to which almost all unacclimated persons are liable.

6th. That the citizens in general should make use of it, either raw, cooked, or in form of a catsup, with their daily food, as it is the most healthy article of the Materia Alimentaria, &c.

Now if these positions be true, it is of the utmost importance that the public should be made acquainted with the facts and it is with this view that I now make this communication for the press.

MEDICUS.

N. B.—Dr. Bennet stated likewise that the free use of the Tomato would make a person much less liable to an attack of Cholera, and that it would in the majority of cases prevent it.

M.