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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    [40 ] moft conftant Gonorrhoea, for a Series of Years, and ftili continues otherwife heal¬ thy, florid and gay. And fuch kind of Inliances, doubtlels, are not fo rare, but others have often met with them as well as my felf. Now I only ask, Whether it is probable that a Man Ihou’d not only bear up fo long under fuch a conllant Train of Infections, but appear freih, active and vigorous all the time, without the Affiftance of force very powerful Re¬ medy of a Tendency contrary to that of the Diftemper ? But in this Cafe nothing can pretend to that Character but Wine. I will farther add, that when the Infe¬ ction is become universal; when it is fo interwoven with the Conftitution, that there remain no Hopes of a Cure, even then I fay our grand Cordial will take Place; even then enable the tainted Juices to refill a farther degree of Corruption, and preferve the Bones from Rottennefs. And herein the fuperior Excellence of Wine is manifeft above all other Reme¬ dies whatsoever, that ’tis applicable and advantageous w'here the relt will fail us ; and not only eale Pain and procure Sleep, but render the Patient infenfible of his Difeafe. I come now to the lall Dillemper, where¬ in I deiign to Shew the extraordinary Vir¬ tues of the exhilerating Juice of the Grape; and