LETTUCE PREVENTS SMALLPOX.
By Medical Talk
So far as it is possible for a human being to be protected from catching smallpox, lettuce is a protection. No need for vaccination whatever. Any person who eats a small quantity of lettuce twice a day, morning and evening, is as well protected against smallpox as it is possible for any one to be. To be sure, one ought to be clean, ought to live in ventilated rooms, and avoid dirt of all sorts. Also avoid contact with people who have smallpox. Foolish exposure to the contagion of smallpox is not to be thought of. But there is no need for vaccination. Lettuce is one of the oldest vegetable remedies known to the medical profession. Long before it was used as food it was used as medicine. Many times it has been claimed that it has magical or miraculous powers to prevent contagious disease. We believe this is carrying matters altogether too far. But lettuce does furnish to the system exactly what is needed to protect it against the poison of smallpox.