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Stone-Fruit, Wholesomeness Of

Stone-fruit, generally speaking, is less digestible when eaten raw than the other descriptions of fruit; to healthy persons, however, when ripe, and consumed in moderation, it is not injurious. Plums have acquired a character for causing disorder and diarrhoea which they scarcely deserve. Undoubtedly with some persons they disagree, and indeed, with all, if they are eaten immoderately or in bad condition; but that they, or fruits generally, are the cause of the regular autumnal or British cholera, is a fallacy which has been established in the popular mind in consequence of the season at which plums are ripe, the "plum-season" being co-incident with that at which people in this country, who have been exposed to the effects of the summer's heat, are most liable to that outbreak of accumulated bile which is known as bowel complaint, or English, or British, or summer cholera.