The apple treatment of infantile diarrhoea.

Although the beneficial effect of apple in the treatment of diarrhoea seems to have been known for many years, it is only in the last decade that it has found a place in medical literature. Schachter (1934) in one of his communications on this subject refers to a description of apple therapy in dysentery in an English book published in 1775. Apparently the treatment has been an ' old wives' tale ' in parts of Germany for many years, and during the last war it was found in a certain concentration camp that patients with dysentery who managed to secure apples growing in the grounds of the camp were quickly relieved of their symptoms.