From the Medical and Surgical Journal,

 FRUITS.
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 We are familiarly acquainted with the prejudice existing against the free use of our domestic fruits, but very much question whether they have ever operated so unfa-. vorably as is generally believed It would be quite as philosophical 10 discard bread stuffs, the various leguminous productions of the garden, and the meats offered in the market, as to interdict the rich fruits which nature has scattered around us. If a care- ful register were made of all the deaths ari- sing from eating these two species of food, 1t is quite probable as many would be found attributable to one cause as the other. Eating and drinking have become altoge- ther too artificial; people consult their books oftener to discover how, when, and what sort of a meal should be taken, than they do to ascertain the state of their finan- ces. Life is thus reduced to an unnatural scale, and the capacity of the stomach mea- sured as tide waiter would guage the di- mensions of a hogshead, instead of follow ing the simple indications of hunger, which