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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    [44] Road, fuffer me therefore to put you into a new Method, and to Ihew you how you may become your own Phyilcian. Be pleas’d, Madam, faid I, in the Prefence of her Sitter, to flice the Rind of two Sevil Oranges, and fet it to fteep, for a Day or two,in aQuart Bottle of Sherry;and of this Liquor, when ttrain’d, take half a W ine-Glals every Morning, fatting ; as much an Hour before Dinner, and again the like when you go to Bed. Walk about your Chamber as much as your Strength will permit, let your Diet be light, and eafy of Digettion, eat little at once, but often; and drink a Glafs or two of Mountain or Canary at your Meals; for, continued 1, your Stomach is weak, but this Method, if you fail not in the Performance of your Part, will reftore your Appetire and give you Strength ; the things you now ttand moil in need of. But, Sir, laid lhe, will you prefcribe me nothing to take? I mult havePhyfick, fome Boluffes, and a Cordial, or I fliall never live till Morning. My Defign, re¬ ply’d I, is to make you your own Phytt- cian, and wou’d have you take to your felf the Care and Honour of the Cure ; at leaft. Madam, for one Day let alone all Phyfick except that of your own pre¬ paring. To this, after fome Perfualion,