The skin of the sweet orange in the crude state is indigestible, and even dangerous. Children should be prevented eating it or swallowing the pips, as even fatal results have followed eating the rind of one orange. The pulp of the sweet orange, and, still better, the expressed juice, Is very grateful to persons with feverish or inflammatory diseases. Orangeade is made by adding water and sugar to the juice. The adjunct of sugar is objectionable. Greatly more objectionable is sugar with lemon-juice, which is much more digestible when pure or with water only. The utility of lemon-juke in exalting the digestive powers of the stomach was long familiarly known to gourmands, and taken by them as an accompaniment of young and fat meats, such as veal, lamb, pork, goose, and other food. These are almost all white meats ; but in French cookery lemon-juice is taken with black meats, such as game. Ducks of different kinds are seasoned by the English with lemon-juice. It was, however, long before the observation of its power in these instances led to its employment to raise the depressed condition of the stomach among seamen and others compelled to use salted, hard, and innutritious meat for a length of time. To Sir Gilbert Blanc is due the merit of this great improvement, which has almost entirely banished sea-scurvy front our navy. [AxTiscoitavrics.] But
many medicines have their curative power increased by the accompa niment of lemon-juice. Bilious and autumnal fevers of an inter mittent type are often cured by cinchona with lemon-juice, which cinchona could not affect alone, or in other combinations. The most efficacious of antidotes to sea-sickness is lemon-juice alone, or with com mon table-salt dissolved in it. The health of many persons on land is very greatly improved by the habitual employment of lemon-juice at meals, in preference to malt liquors; but it must be taken with out sugar. Of late lemon-juice has been recommended as a cure fur rheumatism, in some cases with unquestionable benefit ; but it requires to be taken in Large quantity, and fresh, not old imported juice, or the imitation of genuine juice made by dissolving citric acid and adding tincture of lemon-peel. Headaches of a neuralgic kind and nudarious origin are often speedily relieved by pure lemon-juice. Heartburn is often relieved by the same means. Slices of lemon applied to the skin by a bandage often cure cutaneous disorders. Lime-juice is used in the West Indies in the same way as lemon-juice. Both are much employed as ingredients in punch ; but sugar is an objectionable accompaniment.