Lemons As "Anti-Fat Agents" - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 lemon
1 glass hot water

Preparation

This recipe is taken from a 1911 cookbook:
Use the juice of half a lemon in a glass of hot water, taken just before breakfast, as a successful substitute for Calomel and all other alternative drugs.
When one rises in the morning, headachy and dull, with what \"Wang\" describes as a \"dark brown, fuzzy taste in the mouth and dumb nausea weighing upon the stomach like a forty horse-power nightmare,\" let one try this prescription, repeating it for two days thereafter.