Amchur or Dried Mango-Pulp as an Antiscorbutic

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Medical College, Calcutta, The dried pulp of the mango (Mangifera Indica) contains such a large amount of Citric Acid as to make this common fruit not at all an inefficient substitute for lime-juice when the latter cannot readily be obtained as an antiscorbutic. A quantitative analysis of three different samples of mango-pulp, which had been dried by exposure to the heat of the sun, gave the following results:?The samples contained respectively 16'20, 13*60, and 15*6 per cent, of water. In the water-free pulp, the proportions of Citric and Malic Acids per ounce were as iu the following table :?