CITRIC ACID

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: Medical Dictionary · 1909 · p. 1

is a colourle powder of acid taste, — readily soluble in water. Two ounces to the pint of water make a solution rather stronger than lemon juice. The dose of citric acid is five to twenty grains. It is oftéa used to produce an cffervescing dranght, a saltspoonfal:; if = So [s. 343]