CITRIC ACID. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

CITRIC ACID.

Authority.

W. Stevens, On the Blood, p. 451.

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During a residence of twenty years in the West Indies I
have only seen one case of scurvy, and that case was decidedly
brought on by the excessive use of Citric acid, which an American gentleman had been
recommended to use a preventive against the yellow fever.

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