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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    .... [*<] / and ofFenfive to the Stomach ; which are; the common Faults of all Tavern-Bitters.? A Pint of Sherry, White Tort, or other white Wine, dalh’d with two or threes Spoonfulls of this Tinfture makes a de¬ lightful Bitter, which is the Name it has long gone by in my Family, and among fuch of my Acquaintance as have ufed it.: One or two of thefe Ingredients indeed are a little more coftly than thofe com¬ monly ufed by Vintners for the fame Pur- pofe ; neither will they go fo far, becaufe not fufFer’d to fteep fo long as theirs; for which Reafons it cannot well be fold fo cheap as that, efpecially if none but neat Wine, which I earneftly recommend, be ufed in it. FINIS. > .* ■a