Wine in the different forms of anaemia and atonic gout.

  • Bégin, M.E.
Date:
[1874]
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Credit: Wine in the different forms of anaemia and atonic gout. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Raphael, far surpass, in a hygienic point of view, those which are simply alcoholic or alcoholic and sweet, because they agree better with the digestive organs when they are taken in moderate doses. Forms of ansemia are so varied, their causes so different, and often in appearance so opposed to each other, that a tendency daily arises to excite the energies of the nutritive functions by means as powerful as they are imperceptible. This ansemia may arise from insufficient alimentation; it is also developed in persons too well nourished, whose alimentation is imperfect and too abundant, con- sidering their amount of bodily exercise. Moral influence upon the constitution is often revealed by these manifestations of ansemia. Serious pre-occupa- tion, deep sorrow, the bustle of business, a nervous or unhealthy over-excitement with young girls during the period of menstruation, and with women during pregnancy and change of life, are a number of moral conditions which produce ansemia, and con- sequently arise from languor of the digestive func- tions. A number of chronic affections, such as albu- minuria, scrofula, intermittent fevers, various forms of intoxication, etc., lead to special ansemic conditions. Hygiene, a proper regimen, and pure air are all- powerful remedies, when nature has not been exhausted by empiricism, and when it has not lost all strength. A few adjuvants, amongst natural reserves, suffice to co-operate, by degrees, and by small uninter- rupted doses, with the efforts of nature, which, always powerful and ingenious, reinstates and repairs 1—3