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Strawberries, Wholesomeness Of

The strawberry must be ranked amongst the most wholesome productions of the vegetable kingdom. It is recorded of Fontenelle that he ascribed his longevity to them, in consequence of their having regularly cooled a fever which he had every spring; and that he used to say, "If I can but reach the season of strawberries." Boerhaave regarded their continual use as one of the principal remedies in cases of obstruction and viscidity, and in putrid disorders. Hoffman furnishes instances of obstinate disorders cured by them, even consumption, and Linnaeus says that by eating plentifully of them he kept himself free from gout.