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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    3 Tis a true and proper Cor¬ dial, The Pro• du&tons of Wine, natu ral and ar¬ tificial. [ < ] thefe, ’tis impoffible to commit an Error in exhibiting it *. Whence it appears that Wine is no temporary or imaginary Cordial, whofe Effefts will foon vanilh ; but one that is true, real and permanent, general, eafy and powerful; affording Matter for a frelh fupply of Blood and Spirits, at the fame time that it follicits the exercice and expence of them f. The Productions of our exhilarating Juice, by Combination, are, as well as thofe of Water, infinite. I fhall there¬ fore filently pafs over its lingular Ufe in extracting TinCiures, diffolving Gums, and making Extracts from Vegetable, Animal and Mineral Productions; with¬ out attempting to mention the numerous Medicines wherewith it furnilhes the Shops, under the titles of Elixirs, Vine¬ gars, Wines, Waters, &c. All that I here delign to touch upon are thofe which it either yields fpontaneoufly, or by bare * ’Twas thought fo innocent by Hippocrates, that he ordered Children to be dieted with it in the Stone either of the Bladder or Kidneys; and exprefly commands the [mailer fort to be conflantly drunk by all Perfons in the Summer feafon, but the firongefi of all in the Winter. ■j* 5Tis the opinion of Galen, that Wine affords more Nourijh- ment than any other thing in Nature j that it increafes, to (peak after his manner, radical moijlure, and prolongs Life. Wine, fays Avicenna, refrefhes the Spirits, and is it felf eafily converted into them. reparation.