5 
497 
brought to us is chiefly th 
the 
of Parkinfo 
pr 
of Spain and Po 
? 
( 
amental green-houfe 
to 
have 
be 
£> 
but in tins 
pr 
& 
s 
her 
arrives a 
country the fruit rarely 
The China Or 
perfedhon of that which is imported from Sp 
fc> 
d Seville O 
b 
■a 
fame fpecies ; but it is only the latter which 
both varieties of 
c 
1 
CI 
Med 
of 
our Pharmacopoeia 
ow rind of this fru 
s a place in the M 
i 
, in wnicn not onh 
ir 
•» 
alio the 
dfl 
cd for 
7 
mec 
the 
licit 
J 
na 
fe 
9 
ind 
but 
j> 
The j 
enc 
hine thirl! 
O 
is a grateful acid liquo 
action of th 
febrile and inflammatory difoi 
which, by alb 
aying heat, 
1 
ers. 
It is alfo a powerfu 
and of 
what i 
efficacy in preventing and curing the fcurvy. c Though 
here obferved relates to 
J 
that of the China, by being united with 
i 
Seville O 
proportion of 
to 
yet 
rm 
matter, is more agreeable to the tafle, therefore moitly preferred 
d may be taken more freely. Thefe 
bile 
faid to take off 
bitternefs : h 
acids, by uniting with th 
Dr. C alien third 
" probable, that acid fruits taken in are often ufeful in obviatine the 
diforders that might arife from the redundancy of bile, and 
fro 
acids 
he 
d quality of 
O 
th 
perhap 
e 
other hand, however, if the 
are in greater quantity than can be, or are, properly corrected 
b 
629, fee Park. Par ad. p. 58 
Q 
See Lind on Scurvy^ p. 163 
■ 
The pra&ice of evaporating this juice, or making it into what has been called a rob, 
in order to preferve it a length of time on fhip board, has been recommended ; but Dr. 
Cuilen fays, « in many trials which I have made, I could not exhale it to fuch a con- 
fiftence as would preferve it without addition, without my finding the acid a good deal 
changed. It acquires an acerbity and ftipticity that does not allow it to be readily 
diffufed in water ; ^and I fufpe£r. it is not fo readily mifcible with the animal .fluids as in 
its entire ftate. From Forfter's obiervations in the voyage round the world, it was not 
d 
for, partly by the concentration bringing it nearer to the ftate of the fofiile acids, or poffibly 
by the diffipation of fome volatile parts, perhaps a portion of aerial acid ; both of which 
circumftances may render it lefs fit for the cure of fcurvy. I have therefore a bad opinion 
of the acid exhaled to a thick confiltence ; and iud?e the beft wav of preferring its 
virtues to be by a diligent depuration of it from its mucilaginous part, and putting it 
up in clofe veffels, without putting any oil on its furface, which is ready to be acted 
by the acid, and gives a difagreeabl 
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