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IN connection with the letter of “F. G.” in NATURE of June 8 (p. 125), on the strawberry cure of gout, I may mention that last year, when strawberries were so plentiful in England, a lady residing in Kent, who had formerly spent several years in Ceylon, where she had suffered from the wasting and often fatal complaint known as “Ceylon sore mouth” (the chief symptom of which is ulceration of the mucous membrane of the digestive organs), having had a return of the malady, and being unwilling: to go abroad to undergo the “grape cure,” conceived the happy idea to try strawberries instead, confining her diet to several pounds of these a day with plenty of milk. The remedy was so effectual that after a few weeks she was entirely cured of her malady, and had grown stout and well again.
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FERGUSON, D. Strawberry Cure for Gout. Nature 60, 150 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060150d0
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