VINEGAR

is a diluted form of acctic acid. Meat soaked in vinegar becomes tender as the material that cements the Sbres together becomes di olved. Vinegar is also used to relieve thirst and to modify the taste of salad and other oils. ag parts of vinegar and water may be used as a cooling lotion with which to bathe the forehead in headache, or the skin generally in fever. Internally the medicinal use of vinegar is slight; as a gargle, two drachms of vi to the ounce of water may be useful, but the bors. use of vinegar as a cure for obesity is to be condemned, as it only acts by pot as up & gastro-enteritis, and so —— the absorption of nutriment. Aromatic Vinegar, made by adding oil of lavender, cloves, and the like to white vinegar, was formorly regarded as a disinfectant. It is now supplanted by efficient disinfectants, e.g. Jeyes’ fluid, Izal, etc. Raspberry Vinegar used diluted with water to quench thirst in fever is inferior in the writer's opinion to those drinks mentioned under Beverages. [s. 422]