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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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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    Tartar, The Effects of Wine in the Human Body. E 8 ] for Vinegar, which is this Fluid cor¬ rupted, or changed in its vinous Nature, is applicable to numerous Phylical pur- pofes; and has extraordinary virtues in the Plague. And Tartar, which is the Sediment of Wine, beftdes its great Me¬ dicinal ufes, h'as another fo extenfive, that none but Adepts in Chymiftry are qualified to underttand it. ’Tis the Key of Nature, and when properly applied, will difcover her moft hidden Secrets, and yield the bell of Medicines. How powerful then mutt that Remedy be, which contains and fo ealily affords four others, whofe Virtues are furprizingly great ? Hence clearly appear the great Neceffity,fuperior Excellence and exten- live Ufe of Wine; fince without it Chy- miftry wou’d be no Art and Phyfick no Profeflion. Wine drank in moderate quantities, or proportionably to the refpeaive Con- ftitutions of Men,in Health, has,as we find from Experience, a power to give fud- den Refrefhment, to warm the Stomach, gently ftimulate its Fibres, promote Di- geftion, raife the Pulfe, rarify the Blood, add to its Velocity, open Obttruftions, forward Excretions, greatly promote in- fenfible Perfpiration, increafe the natu¬ ral Strength, and enlarge the Faculties both of Body and Mind, But when ufed