Pomarium Britannicum An Historical And Botanical Account of Fruits Known in Gr
Pomarium Britannicum An Historical And Botanical Account of Fruits Known in Gr
Henry Phillips
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He adds, " This fruit is neither of the Seville or China kind, though it partakes of both, having the sweetness of the China mixed with the agreeable bitterness and flavour of the Seville orange/' The juice of oranges is a pleasing acid, and good in inflammatory and putrid disor- ders, both acute and chronical. The juice contains an essential acid salt, mixed with much mucilage. The salt may be obtained in crystals, by diluting the juice, clarifying it with whites of eggs, and using evaporation.... In this way a saline extract may be made, capable of being preserved, and possessed of the same medicinal qualities as the juice, which is said to be very powerful in the scurvy. When Commodore Anson sailed round the world, his men, who were afflicted with the scurvy, were surprisingly recovered from that disorder by the oranges they found in the island of Tinian. Orangeade, an agreeable drink made of orange-juice, water, and sugar, may be 279 given, says Lemery, to people in the height of a fever.
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