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HTML

<select id="size">
    <option value="19991">Medium</option>
    <option value="19992">Large</option>
    <option value="19993">XLarge</option>
</select>

JavaScript

$('#size').find('option').filter(function() {
    return $(this).text() === 'Large';
}).first().attr('selected', 'selected');