Wine : a series of notes on this valuable product and subjects suggested therefrom, together with some important references / by Alexander Webber.

  • Webber, Alexander.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Wine : a series of notes on this valuable product and subjects suggested therefrom, together with some important references / by Alexander Webber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    what is more remarkable, that the same indi- vidual will hesitate in expending half this amount for Port and Sherry, etc., and ofttimes grudge one fourth of the first-named sum for a bottle of Claret. I lay it down as an axiom, that age will never have any effect in making bad or inferior wine, good and superior wine. l£t'gijti>-onr. The use of good wine in health, and also in the therapeutic treatment of disease, is to-day acknowledged by the faculty as one of the most indispensable aids contained in the Pharmacopoeia. Bad wine, on the contrary, is one of the most destructive enemies to health. IHtghtn-ttoo. Wines are very indiscriminately, as to quality, ordered by many doctors, each for its well-known