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Citric Acid

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
October
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Enormous qnantitiesof citric acid are used in calicó printing, in pharmacy and in thcprejjaralion'of artificial lemonade. About 1 4 ounces (570 grains) of pure citric acid dissolved in a pint of water gives a solution wbicli has the average acidity of good leiiion juice. When diluted with several times its bulk of water, sweetened with sugar and scented with a single drop of essence of lemon, an artificial lemonade is cheaply produced, which is mnch used as a cooling drink in f ever hospitals. It has also been used in the navy as a substituto for fresh lemon juice in the trealment or prevention of scurvy, bnt has been found much less efficiënt. In fact, tuis artificial lemonade is by no rneans equal to tliafc made from pure lemon juice, whether used at table or for invalids. In rheumatism or rheumatic gout the fresh juice of the lemon is preferred on account of the bicitrate of potash which it contains. Pnre lemon juice is also a valuable remedy in sore throat and diphtheria. Cases have been recorded in which children have apparently been cured of this terrible disease by coustantly sucking orangea or lemons. Pure citric acid possesses, like sorne other acids, the power of destroying the bad effects of polluted water used for drinkiug, but it is perhaps best to boil the water before addinu a little citrio acid to it.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News