Citric Acid
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
CITRIC ACID. Authority.
W. Stevens, On the Blood, p. 451.
- 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.