The prospect of a good—and cheap—supply of oranges this winter is welcome for the common idea that they ward off influenza has. authoritative backing the "Daily Chronicle" tells us. The discovery of their antiseptic value would seem to have been made soon after their introduction into England for Cavendish describes how his master, Cardinal Wolsey, was wont to carry "a fair orange, of which the meat had been removed and the space filled with a sponge of vinegar and other confections against pestilence," which the haughty prelate "sniffed unto" when entering a crowded assembly or when beset. by too many suitors.
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