422 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
his execution at York Castle, 1759, for the murder of Daniel 
Clarke, (a shoemaker,) committed thirteen years before, at his 
last interview with Sally, his favourite daughter, bade her make 
a wash of fresh lemon-juice for her freckles. Sydney Smith, 
in writing about Foston, his remote country cure, in Yorkshire, 
said, “it stands twelve miles from a lemon.” He kept a village 
medicine chest which contained “ heart’s delight,” the comfort of 
his old women ; also “ the gentle jog ;” the “ bull-dog” for more 
serious cases; “‘ Peterspuke, and up with it;” “ Rub-a-dub,” 
the best of embrocations ; and “dead stop, which settles the 
matter at once.” The juice of a lemon mixed with honey, 
in a breakfastcupful of hot water, is quite a specific for sore 
throat which is catarrhal, also for the teasing cough which 
troubles some persons in damp weather. 
In rheumatic fever, when the system is saturated with 
mischievous, sour, fermentative products, fresh lemon-juice, 
mixed in equal proportions with boiling water, and allowed to 
become cool, is an excellent antidote, to be taken pretty often. 
The citric acid of the lemons being combined with potash, becomes 
burnt off quickly in the body, leaving its alkaline base to 
neutralize the rheumatic acids, and thus subduing the disease. 
As a nutritive lemonade, combined with white of egg, take two 
lemons, using their yellow rinds for flavouring, whilst rejecting 
the inner white rinds. Slice the lemon, and pour over them, 
together with the outer yellow rinds, a pint of boiling water ; 
stir until cooled to the temperature of ordinary tea, and then 
strain. The whites of two eggs are next to be slowly added, 
whilst briskly stirring the liquid. Whip the mixture for several 
minutes, and then strain; add sugar to taste, and drink the 
lemonade cold. The pips should always be first taken out. 
During intermittent fevers, fresh lemon-juice is helpful and 
refreshing, being mixed with strong, hot, black tea, or coffee, 
without sugar. Throughout Italy, and at Rome, a decoction 
of fresh lemons is extolled as a specific antidote to such inter- 
mittent fevers ; for which purpose a fresh, unpeeled Jemon is cut 
into thin slices, and put in an earthenware jar with three break- 
fast-cupfuls of cold water, and boiled down to one cuptul; this 
is to be strained, the lemon being squeezed, and the decoction 
is to be given shortly before the access of fever is periodically 
expected. The lemon juice has quinine-like properties in 
bringing down the temperature of a fever-stricken patient. 
