General instructions for the choice of wines and spirituous liquors. Dedicated to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Part I. describes those wines which are best to be used at the tables of the opulent. Part II. Points out those wines which alone ought to be administered to the sick. Part III. Contains instructions concerning spirituous liquors ... and Part IV. An account of disorders cured by wine ... with copies of letters from personages of distinction ... the whole essentially useful in all families / ny D. M'Bride.

  • McBride, Duncan.
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[1793]
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Credit: General instructions for the choice of wines and spirituous liquors. Dedicated to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Part I. describes those wines which are best to be used at the tables of the opulent. Part II. Points out those wines which alone ought to be administered to the sick. Part III. Contains instructions concerning spirituous liquors ... and Part IV. An account of disorders cured by wine ... with copies of letters from personages of distinction ... the whole essentially useful in all families / ny D. M'Bride. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE IV. Tliis wine feems not only to poffefs extraordinary powers in removing diforders of the ftomach and bowels, but likev/ife in obftrudlions of the urinary paffages. I notice this the more particularly, as wines are fcldom adminiiiered with this view. It is with- out a doubt, however, that fcveral patients of mine, and fome of them of a very advanced age, have been cured of ob^udlions in the urinary paffages by die Toc-kay de Opagna, after immenfe quandties of laudanum and other narcotics had been adminiftered in vain, and when no urine had been difcharged for many days wichout the affiftance of a catheter. In thefe cafes a few glaffes of the wine generally intluce fleep, which removes the fpafm, and, when the patient wakes, he paffes his water with cafe. In all the cafes where I have feen this tried it has fucceeded, and I think it a much fafer medicine thaii ardent fpirits, or dofing the patient with laudanum. CASE V. I liave not had occafion to try diis wine in a great variety of fevers, but notwithftanding have had fuffi- cicnt proofs to convince me of its being a very power- ful febrifuge. — A young lady, who, for near a tv/elve- monrh, had laboured under an intermitting fever, had taken the ufual medicines by the advice of men of charafler in the profellion, without the leaft effcfl, was at laft advifed by me to make trial of this wine; a few bottles of which effc6lually removed the com- plaint, and Ihe has continued well ever fmce. I wifh this practice to be taken particular notice of) as many *S(iinate agues would, ] make no doubt, yield to the life