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epilepsy, or other convulsive disorders ; a tea is also made from 
them for hysterical patients. Orange-flower water (/’Eau de 
fleur d@’ Oranger) is frequently taken in France by ladies as a mild 
soporific at night, when sufficiently diluted with sugared water. 
Thousands of gallons are drunk there in this way every year. 
Dried Orange berries may be had from English druggists; and 
if a teaspoonful of these be crushed, and infused in a teacupiul 
of quite hot water, the clear liquid will make a gentle sleeping 
draught, without giving a headache next morning. In Great 
Expectations (by Charles Dickens) “ Mrs. Pocket looked up irom 
her book, and, smiling upon Pip, in an absent state of mind 
asked him if he liked the taste of Orange-flower water, this 
question not having any bearing, near or remote, on any foregone, 
or subsequent transaction.” 
The Orange berries furnish a fragrant oil, essence de petit grain, 
and contain citrates, and malates of lime, and potash, with 
hesperidin, sulphur, and mineral salts. The flowers yield a 
volatile odorous oil, acetic acid, and acetate of lime; the juice 
of an Orange consists of citric, and malic acids, with fruit-sugar, 
citrate of lime, and water. As an appetizing and energizing 
bitter tonic. the Seville Orange-peel can well take the place of 
cinchona bark; indeed, the Pharmacopeeial tincture of Quinine 
contains that alkaloid, and the Orange bitter, on equal terms. 
They are each antidotal to malarious fever, and ague. Our 
two great Universities are nobly loyal to Orange Marmalade, 
of which a notably superior kind is made at Oxford, and is 
now sent from thence far and wide; its extra bitterness, and 
manifest purity, fully commend such popularity. A saying 
goes there that no undergraduate can pass his “ little go” until 
he has consumed his own weight of Marmalade ; which conserve 
got the name “Squish” first at Oxford. Orange oil is an 
essential oil extracted irom the rind of both the bitter and the 
sweet Orange ; it is used in liqueur-making, and in perfumery. 
Professor Kirk, of Edinburgh, in his Papers on Health, 
admonishes persons concerning this fruit when eaten recklessly ; 
“We have known most serious stomach disturbance caused to 
healthy persons by eating the whole substance of an” Orange, 
except the outer rind. Some parts of the inner rind, and 
the partitions of the fruit, will act with certain individuals 
_ almost like poison; these portions should therefore be always 
_ Tejected; the juice 1s most beneficial.” Common Oranges, if 
