This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
In cases of dyspepsia, marked especially by local discomfort, much thirst, and tendency to nausea or sickness, effervescing alkaline citrates are often both grateful and remedial. Citric acid, or its compounds, are good refrigerants, and allay thirst in cases of fever.
 
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