ORANGE. 537 
cut through the middle while green, and dried in the air, being 
aiterwards steeped for forty days in oil, are used by the Arabs 
for preparing an essence famous among their elderly women, 
for restoring a fresh dark, or black colour, to grey hair. 
To make a syrup of Orange flowers: ‘‘ Take four pounds of 
clarified sugar, and boil it to pearl; put into it several handfuls 
of perfectly fresh, and well-picked Orange flowers, and give them 
a good boil. Take it off the fire, and allow the flowers to iniuse 
for two hours; then put it back over the fire, and boil it up a 
few more times. Place a sieve over an earthenware dish, and 
pour in the syrup so as to strain out the flowers; then put it 
again over the fire, and bring it out to small pearl. Allow it to 
cool in an earthenware dish, and pour it into bottles.” 
The white lining pith of Orange-peel yields likewise the crys- 
talline principle, “ hesperidin.”” Dr. Cullen has shown that the 
acid juice of Oranges, by uniting with the bile, diminishes the. 
bitterness of that secretion; and hence it is that this fruit is of 
particular service in illnesses which arise from a redundancy 
of bile, chiefly in dark persons of a fibrous, or bilious tempera- 
ment. But in the case of other individuals having only a small 
liver, and proportionate secreting powers of _ bile-making, 
Oranges will prove purgative, and induce colicky pains. Fresh 
Oranges will obviate a craving for intoxicating drinks: they 
allay thirst, and their fruit acids act beneficially. Because 
lessening the blood fibrin, which takes on an excess during 
influenza, Orange juice, if swallowed freely, is found to cut short 
that malady, and to prevent lung inflammation therefrom. 
This fruit has lately acquired a reputation for particular benefits’ 
conferred on the consumptive. An Orange-cure which proceeds 
after such fashion is growing in favour, the Oranges being taken 
tepeatedly every day, and always at meal-times. In Florida 
the said cure is practised systematically, the Navel Orange being 
chiefly selected, because of its abundant juice, and the specific 
virtues it is believed to possess for biliary, and bronchial ailments. 
Dr. Samuel Wesley (Primitive Physic, 1743) advised “for a cold 
in the head : thin the yellow rind of an Orange; roll this up inside 
out, and thrust a roll into each nostril.” “‘ The Orange,” says 
Evelyn, “exceedingly refreshes and resists putrefaction; the 
very spoils and rinds of Oranges and Limons, being shred and 
sprinkled among other Herbs do correct their acrimony.” 
In America Orange tea is taken frequently as a substitute 
