Note 549 — PHARMACOLOGIA. (continued 5)

It was known to be a remedy for this disorder at least two hundred years ago; for, in a work entitled, “The Surgeon’s Mate, or Military and Domestic Medicine,” by John Woodall, master in Surgery, London, 1636, the author concludes his eulogium of lemon juice, by saying, “I dare not write how good a sauce it is at meat, lest the chief in the ship should waste it in the great cabin to save vinegar.”