The juice of the grape: or, wine preferable to water. A treatise, wherein wine is shewn to be the grand preserver of health, and restorer in most diseases : with many instances of cures perform'd by this noble remedy, and the method of using it, as well for prevention as cure with a word of advice to vintners / By a Fellow of the College [i.e. P. Shaw].

  • Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763.
Date:
1724
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The juice of the grape: or, wine preferable to water. A treatise, wherein wine is shewn to be the grand preserver of health, and restorer in most diseases : with many instances of cures perform'd by this noble remedy, and the method of using it, as well for prevention as cure with a word of advice to vintners / By a Fellow of the College [i.e. P. Shaw]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Its prepara¬ tion. Its Virtues a priori. L 4 ] But its Elements being here exaftly blended, fo that no one can prevail over the others, it remains lock’d up in it felf, ’till Fermentation rouzes its more aftive Parts, feparates the vinous Principle, and fets it loofe to prefide over the reft. And herein confifts the true Nature and Ef- fence of Wine. When this Operation has wrought its due Effe&s on the Li¬ quor, ’tis committed to the Tun; where the terreftrial Part fubfides, the more fub- tile Fluid purges it felf clear, feeds upon its own Tartar, and thus preferves its Spirit till Age ripens the delightful Cor¬ dial for Ufe. This is the genuine Method of preparing Wine : And ’tis only of Wine thus prepared, that I muft here be underftood to fpeak. Now from fuch a Liquor as we have been defcribing, what may we not ex¬ pert ? If different Soils, with the feminal Principles of the mineral and metalline Bodies they contain, fhare any medicinal Virtues, ’tis plain we muft have them im¬ proved in Wine : And if vegetative Life, Circulation and Digeftion have any Force, its Effefts mutt be found in the Juice of t^ Grape. In fhort, from confi- dering“rhe Growth of W^ine, and the Manner or its Preparation, ’tis evident a priori, that both Nature and Art con- fpire to render it a moft fovereign Re¬ medy