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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    That they are great, fur prizing and inno * cent. | io ] therefore, very clear that Wine, pru¬ dently ufed, has naturally a flrong and direct Tendency to prolong Life and prevent Difeafes ; efpecially iince it is fo particularly levell’d to encourage and promote infenfible Perfpiration; an Ob- llruftion wherein we are allured is the primary caufe of molt Diforders in the Animal Frame. That it is alfo a very fafe and power¬ ful Remedy, as well as a great Preferva- tive, may be argued from the furprizing Effefts which too large a Dofe of it will produce in the Human Body. When the Stomach is overcharged herewith, and more Animal Spirits feparated in the Brain than the Human Soul can employ, or Nature immediately difcharge, the caufe the Effeffis of Wine are too flrong for floatter d Confutati¬ ons i and becaufe ’tis too great a Cordial to be given where the Lungs are unfound, mufl we therefore in robuft and untainted Bodies exchange it for Water ? Dr. Hancocke’j Rule then, for drinking Water, may now and then hold very well for himfelf and thofe in his unhappy Condition j but let him not thence pretend to prefcribe it univerfally in every Cafe and every Confutation. Rut to drink cold Watery is particularly dangerous to fuch as have not been accuflomed it. To alter the Cuflom herein is dangerous, and has cofl many their Lives. Befldes, a due regard mufl be had to the Climate and Seafon of the Tear. To drink celd Water or thaw'd Ice in Greenland, where the Frofl almofl congeals the Blood, were little lefs than Madnefs. Hippocrates fpeaks goodflenfe, and tells us plainly that our Drink in Winter mufl be the ftrongefl Wine; and doubtlefs the fame Rule mufl hold in the colder Regions. Water, therefore, is but an indifferent Liquor in Northern Climates, and Englilh Confutations. Man